4 Submissions accepted at International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE)

End of February, I submitted four contributions to the 14th International Conference on Web Engineering: two full papers, one demo and one poster. Of these four submissions, all were accepted and will be presented at the conference, which is to be held in Toulouse (see map below) from July 1 to July 4. In the following, I’ll give a quick overview of the accepted papers. A more detailed explanation of my current research will be the subject of one or two separate articles.

• Maximilian Speicher, Sebastian Nuck, Andreas Both, Martin Gaedke: “StreamMyRelevance! Prediction of Result Relevance from Real-Time Interactions and its Application to Hotel Search” — This full paper is based on Sebastian Nuck’s Master thesis. He developed a system for processing user interactions collected on search results pages in real-time and predicting the relevance of individual search results from these.
• Maximilian Speicher, Andreas Both, Martin Gaedke: “Ensuring Web Interface Quality through Usability-based Split Testing” — This full paper proposes a new approach to split testing that is based on the actual usability of the investigated web interface rather than pure conversion maximization. We have trained models for predicting usability from user interactions and from these have also derived additional interaction-based heuristics for comparing search results pages.
• Maximilian Speicher, Andreas Both, Martin Gaedke: “WaPPU: Usability-based A/B Testing” — This demo accompanies our paper about Usability-based Split Testing. The WaPPU tool builds upon this new concept and demonstrates how usability can be predicted from user interactions using automatically learned models.
• Maximilian Speicher: “Paving the Path to Content-centric and Device-agnostic Web Design” — This poster is based on one of my previous posts. It provides a review of motherfuckingwebsite.com, which satirically claims to be a perfect website. Based on current research, we suggest improvements to the site that follow a strictly content-centric and device-agnostic approach.

My PhD research is supervised by Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Gaedke (VSR Research Group, Chemnitz U of Technology) and Dr. Andreas Both (R&D, Unister GmbH) and funded by the ESF and the Free State of Saxony.