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ActiveStory Enhanced: Low-Fidelity Prototyping and Wizard of Oz Usability Testing Tool

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Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming (XP 2009)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing ((LNBIP,volume 31))

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This paper presents “ActiveStory Enhanced” as a tool that enables prototyping user interfaces and conducting usability tests in a way that is aligned with agile principles. The tool allows designers to sketch user interface prototypes as well as add basic interactions to provide navigation. Sketching can be done using a mouse or stylus on tablet PCs. Designers can then export the prototype to a web-based Wizard of Oz testing tool, allowing test participants to remotely walk through a UI while recording metrics such as mouse movements and time spent on pages. ASE improves on the original by providing some usability improvements, improved browser support, undo support, more control over the design and an improved pen and paper metaphor.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Calgary, 2500 University Dr. NW, Calgary, AB, Canada, T2N 1N4

    Ali Hosseini-Khayat, Yaser Ghanam, Shelly Park & Frank Maurer

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, P.O.Box 68, 00014, Helsinki, Finland

    Pekka Abrahamsson

  2. DIEE Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Cagliari, Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy

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  3. Agile Software Engineering/e-Business Engineering (ase/ebe) group, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada

    Frank Maurer

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Hosseini-Khayat, A., Ghanam, Y., Park, S., Maurer, F. (2009). ActiveStory Enhanced: Low-Fidelity Prototyping and Wizard of Oz Usability Testing Tool. In: Abrahamsson, P., Marchesi, M., Maurer, F. (eds) Agile Processes in Software Engineering and Extreme Programming. XP 2009. Lecture Notes in Business Information Processing, vol 31. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-01853-4_57

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