Nischitha Gopinath

Web application for Flexible Performance of Multiway Cognitive Walkthrough Evaluations

Cognitive Walkthrough is one of the most widely used usability inspection methods. It involves performing tasks with a number of action sequences and every action has to be justified with a plausible story to support the action performed. Cognitive Walkthrough becomes complicated when there are different ways to perform the same task that is given while working with the user interface. Typical method of Cognitive Walkthrough involves, for every action sequence, a number of questions are answered which becomes a lengthy process when complex tasks are involved. Previous work on Multiway Cognitive Walkthrough was not very a flexible tool and just one variant of Cognitive Walkthrough could be performed. To make the tool more flexible and comfortable to use, a web application with a number of options to perform a Cognitive Walkthrough can be helpful. Using the motivation from the previous work, many ideas can be thought of as to how to develop a tool that is easy to use and flexible to perform the inspection. This thesis concentrates on becoming a one stop application for the whole Cognitive Walkthrough process where inspection of multiple solutions for the same task, creating tasks, creating a number of variants of cognitive walkthrough and also option for performing the inspection without the use of any variant. This test can be performed at any place with the availability of internet since it is a web tool.