Automated Cognitive Walkthrough for the Web (AutoCWW)

Over the past two yearsmy role in the collaborative research has been to carry out the cognitivepsychology research required to develop and parameterize the CognitiveWalkthrough for the Web (CWW) (Blackmon, Polson, Kitajima, & Lewis, 2002).The CWW is a usability inspection method designed to mesh well with webdevelopment procedures and evaluate how well websites support users'navigation and information search tasks. Our goal for the CWW is to transform itinto the AutoCWW. My role in the collaborative research is to test the predictionsof CWW and AutoCWW against the behavior of diverse groups of actual users,parameterizing the CWW/AutoCWW to improve the accuracy of its predictionsuntil they are highly reliable.