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The Method of Evaluating the Usability of the Website Based on Logs and User Preferences

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Hard and Soft Computing for Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia and Security (ACS 2016)

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The article includes the development of usability assessment services based on data from the internal structure of the websites. Considered the problem of evaluating the usability of the websites is made concrete on the basis of: selecting appropriate criteria, determine their significance, selection decision support methods and users preferences. Websites user preferences are variable in time and is usually different from those included in the requirement form, applicable to the stage of creating the site. Once created website may lose its usability due to the variable needs of its users. Services aging process, development of software and hardware in computer science, development of civilization and technology, the flow of time, variable fashion, variable conditions related to users’ behavior, forcing the company to undertake a new researches and develop new methods to evaluate the usability of websites The research paper is to assess usability of websites based on the data contained in the log, which will take into account changing user preferences based on the history of service use.

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  1. Faculty of Economics and Management, Institute of IT in Management, University of Szczecin, Szczecin, Poland

    Luiza Fabisiak

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  1. Graduate School of Science and Engineeri, Ehime University Graduate School of Science and Engineeri, Ehime, Japan

    Shin-ya Kobayashi

  2. West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin , Szczecin, Poland

    Andrzej Piegat

  3. West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin , Szczecin, Poland

    Jerzy Pejaś

  4. West Pomeranian University of Technology in Szczecin , Szczecin, Poland

    Imed El Fray

  5. Polish Academy of Sciences, Systems Research Institute Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland

    Janusz Kacprzyk

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Fabisiak, L. (2017). The Method of Evaluating the Usability of the Website Based on Logs and User Preferences. In: Kobayashi, Sy., Piegat, A., Pejaś, J., El Fray, I., Kacprzyk, J. (eds) Hard and Soft Computing for Artificial Intelligence, Multimedia and Security. ACS 2016. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 534. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48429-7_31

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