Funkify Evaluation
End users with disabilities face many limitations with online accessibility. Efforts to tackle the problems of testing for these problems have not yet been sufficient. This research focuses on evaluating Funkify, an augmented reality tool, to simulate diverse end users’ experiences and challenges when interacting with software. The research evaluates the tool’s effectiveness in emulating four diverse end-user challenges using a heuristics-based evaluation and cognitive walk-throughs on three target websites. Our results show that the tool successfully simulates the personas’ challenges to a varying extent, with a few noticeable limitations. We also provide suggestions for extensions to Funkify as well as AR tools in general.
Investigators
Prof John Grundy, Minh Vu and Joshua Wyman
Publication and presentation
- Wyman, J., Vu, M., Grundy, J.C. Evaluation of An Augmented Reality Approach to Better Understanding Diverse End User Web Site Usage Challenges, 17th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering, 25-26 April 2022, Author pre-published version.
- Evaluation of An Augmented Reality Approach to Better Understanding Diverse End User Web Site Usage Challenges - Video
- Evaluation of An Augmented Reality Approach to Better Understanding Diverse End User Website Usage Challenges - PDF
- Vu, M.H., Wyman, J., Grundy, J.C., Madugalla, A., Better Understanding Diverse End User Website Usage Challenges with Browser-Based Augmented Reality Approaches, H. Kaindl et al. (Eds.): Chapter 13 in Extended papers from ENASE 2022, CCIS 1829, 2023, pp 269–291 -- Final publication available at DOI Author pre-published version PDF
