Title: A RESTful web service to estimating time requirements for web forms

Authors: Ludger Martin

Addresses: Hochschule RheinMain, Faculty of Design – Computer Science – Media, University of Applied Sciences, Unter den Eichen 5, 65195 Wiesbaden, Germany

Abstract: It is important to know whether a website or web application is usable. What you need are statistics about how the website is used. Such statistics usually include information about how much time a web user spends on a web page. But to know whether those dwell times are acceptable you will need reference values. This paper provides and discusses such reference values based on a research study. To allow automatic analysis of input elements a web service is presented to reveal any possible element. Using this service and the results of our study, any kind of HTML/HTML5 input elements in a web form can be analysed.

Keywords: web usability; web forms; HTML input elements; RESTful web services; knowledge extraction; dwell times; reference values; usage statistics.

DOI: 10.1504/IJKWI.2014.065043

International Journal of Knowledge and Web Intelligence, 2014 Vol.5 No.1, pp.62 - 75

Received: 31 Oct 2013
Accepted: 18 Mar 2014
Published online: 25 Oct 2014 *