Automated Usability Evaluation of Web Applications

Evaluating the usability of web applications in terms of their learn-ability and navigability with the current design principles is a prospective area where improvement in the web designing principles should be revolutionised. The availability of any help system while navigating the web applications could be a progressive change towards providing better experience to the end users. Providing such system would be cost effective rather than suggesting the improvements in the design process which might not comply evenly with the web application developers across the globe. The research work presented here aims at providing such a help system to users which improves the user's experience of the web application in terms of two factors: learn-ability and navigability. The proposed help system provides the suggestions in the form of links to be clicked next according to the user goal. The test-bed for the experiments conducted is Virtual Labs web application which is designed as a set of virtual laboratories aimed at users who are deprived of physical infrastructure for carrying out laboratory experiments in their institutes.