Für meine Doktorarbeit in Human-Computer Interaction führe ich momentan eine Umfrage zur Nutzung von Suchmaschinen durch. Es geht mir in dieser Umfrage vor allem darum, herauszufinden, wie ihr Suchmaschinen wahrnehmt und welche Erwartungen ihr an sie habt. Besonderer Fokus liegt auch auf der Nutzung mit Smartphones, Tablets und anderen Geräten, wie z. B. einer Nintendo Wii… Continue reading Umfrage: Suchmaschinen – Wahrnehmung, Nutzung & Erwartungen
Category: Research
[offene Masterarbeit] Was that Page Pleasant to Use? Usability-Metriken in einer echten Suchmaschine
Es gibt viel zu viele schlechte Webseiten! Schon mal versucht, auf http://www.finanzen.sachsen.de die Tagessätze für Auslandsreisekosten zu finden? Falls nicht, einfach mal ausprobieren und viel Spaß dabei! Oder schon mal auf der Seite der Uni Würzburg versucht, herauszufinden, wie genau eine Bewerbung für den Bachelor in Wirtschaftswissenschaften abläuft? Nein? Ist auch eigentlich besser so, weil… Continue reading [offene Masterarbeit] Was that Page Pleasant to Use? Usability-Metriken in einer echten Suchmaschine
How to do Power Law Regression in R, or What Happened When One of my Posts Made it to the Front Page of Hacker News
Recently, my post about motherfuckingwebsite.com was featured on the front page of Y Combinator's Hacker News. I was watching football with some friends when my WordPress app told me twice that my blog's stats "are exploding". Back at home, I checked my stats and noticed that I had almost 6,000 unique visitors and over 7,000 views… Continue reading How to do Power Law Regression in R, or What Happened When One of my Posts Made it to the Front Page of Hacker News
motherfuckingwebsite.com Redesigned. My Other Poster Presented at #ICWE2014
(Disclaimer: motherfuckingwebsite.com was not made by me!) From my original post about redesigning motherfuckingwebsite.com (see here), I have created a poster along with a corresponding short paper, which have been presented at the 2014 International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE). The short paper will be included in the conference proceedings published by Springer: Maximilian Speicher… Continue reading motherfuckingwebsite.com Redesigned. My Other Poster Presented at #ICWE2014
How to Infer Usability from User Interactions. My Poster Presented at #ICWE2014
The corresponding publications are: Maximilian Speicher, Andreas Both and Martin Gaedke (2014). “Ensuring Web Interface Quality through Usability-based Split Testing”. In Proc. ICWE. Maximilian Speicher, Andreas Both and Martin Gaedke (2014). “WaPPU: Usability-based A/B Testing”. In Proc. ICWE (Demos). For more information about WaPPU, please see this previous post. Special thanks go to Fred Funke,… Continue reading How to Infer Usability from User Interactions. My Poster Presented at #ICWE2014
First Screencast Published in VSR Media Center
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vj4cNi7O4ws The demo video about usability-based A/B testing I created for the 2014 International Conference on Web Engineering is now featured in the media center of the VSR research group at Chemnitz University of Technology. The chair of VSR is Prof. Dr.-Ing. Martin Gaedke, who is the primary advisor of my PhD thesis. The video… Continue reading First Screencast Published in VSR Media Center
Usability-based Split Testing or How to infer web interface usability from user interactions
The continuous evaluation of an e-commerce company's web applications is crucial for ensuring customer satisfaction and loyalty. Such evaluations are usually performed as split tests, i.e., the comparison of two slightly different versions of the same webpage with respect to a target metric. Usually, metrics that stakeholders are interested in include completed checkout processes, submitted… Continue reading Usability-based Split Testing or How to infer web interface usability from user interactions
StreamMyRelevance! Predicting Search Result Relevance from Streams of Interactions
Guessing the relevance of delivered search results is one of the biggest issues for today's search engines. The particular problem is that it's difficult to obtain explicit statements from users about whether they found what they were searching for. Clicks are commonly used to guess relevance (using so-called "click models") but they are far from… Continue reading StreamMyRelevance! Predicting Search Result Relevance from Streams of Interactions
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… Continue reading 4 Submissions accepted at International Conference on Web Engineering (ICWE)
Offene Themen für Masterarbeiten: Benutzbarkeit von Web-Interfaces, Evaluierung und Metriken
An alle Masterstudenten in Leipzig und an der TU Chemnitz, die sich mit Human-Computer Interaction, Web-Interfaces und Usability befassen oder gerne befassen wollen: Aktuell habe ich in diesen Themengebieten zwei spannende Masterarbeiten zu vergeben! Vergleich eines Metrik- und Interaktions-basierten Ansatzes mit etablierten Methoden zur Bestimmung der Benutzbarkeit von Web-Interfaces Im Rahmen dieses Themas soll ein… Continue reading Offene Themen für Masterarbeiten: Benutzbarkeit von Web-Interfaces, Evaluierung und Metriken
2008 – Tales of Design & User Experience 