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This thesis presents an approach for the automated usability evaluation of model-based adaptive user interfaces. The described approach is supposed to be used complementary to custom evaluations at development time. By combining a user model with user interface models from a model-based development framework, providing different adaptation alternatives, interaction can be simulated and evaluated accordingly. This way, no additional descriptions of the application need to be created for the evaluation. As a result the complexity and costs for applying an automated usability evaluation can be reduced significantly.
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Quade, M. (2012). Model-Based Evaluation of Adaptive User Interfaces. In: Wichert, R., Van Laerhoven, K., Gelissen, J. (eds) Constructing Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2011. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 277. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31479-7_54
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