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To evaluate how people use interactive applications, many techniques and methods are proposed. In this chapter, we describe two innovative evaluation approaches that exploit the concept of traces as a way of capturing the usage of the system. The first approach uses Aspect-Oriented Programming; the second proposes an explicit coupling between agent-based architecture and evaluation agents. These two approaches are compared.
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Tarby, JC., Ezzedine, H., Kolski, C. (2009). Trace-Based Usability Evaluation Using Aspect-Oriented Programming and Agent-Based Software Architecture. In: Seffah, A., Vanderdonckt, J., Desmarais, M.C. (eds) Human-Centered Software Engineering. Human-Computer Interaction Series. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84800-907-3_12
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