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The document summarizes a heuristic evaluation of a website conducted by a group. It includes an executive summary describing the goals of evaluating task scheduling algorithms' efficiency. It also describes the evaluation methodology, user profiles, evaluators' environments, and analysis of the top five problems found. These problems are presented with illustrative screenshots and descriptions.

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HCI Assignment Assignment#4

The document summarizes a heuristic evaluation of a website conducted by a group. It includes an executive summary describing the goals of evaluating task scheduling algorithms' efficiency. It also describes the evaluation methodology, user profiles, evaluators' environments, and analysis of the top five problems found. These problems are presented with illustrative screenshots and descriptions.

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12/12/13 Heuristic Evaluation Report

Heuristic Evaluation Report

CSC-456: Human-Computer Interaction

Group Members
 Muhammad Faran Khalid (FA16-BCS-178)

 Muhammad Humza Waseem (FA16-BCS-216)

 Muhammad Hamza Reza (FA16-BCS-092)

Heuristic Evaluation of the Web Site

http://www.something.com/

Report of XXth April 2013


{My instructions and comments are contained inside curly brackets. Remove them before you hand in
your work!}

1 Executive Summary:
1.1 ABSTRACT:
The task scheduling on VMs in cloud Datacenters is becoming complex due to increase of users and
applications. We use CloudSim framework to simulate different algorithms that can efficiently schedule
the tasks on the VMs. The end results show the difference in the efficiency of these algorithms and
highlight the most efficient algorithm for task scheduling.

1.2 GOALS AND OBJECTIVES:


Following are our objectives keeping in mind the problems mentioned above:
 To design a dynamic task scheduler using efficient algorithms such as Greedy, IBA algorithm that
distributes all tasks among the VMs efficiently decreasing the energy and time consumption.
 To determine the best servers for VM migration by keeping the SLA (Service Level Agreement)
in check.

2 Evaluation Methodology
According to Jacob Nielsen, Heuristic Evaluation is an evaluation technique which is used to find flaws
and shortcomings in the user interface of a user application or a website. These identified shortcomings
can then be attended and rectified during the software iterative design process.

3 User Profiles
file:///C:/Users/ibm/Desktop/Heuristics Evaluation/Heuristic Evaluation Template.htm 1/
12/12/13 Heuristic Evaluation Report
{Describe the kinds of user your product is trying to attract.}

{Group these users into categories according to their characteristics.}

file:///C:/Users/ibm/Desktop/Heuristics Evaluation/Heuristic Evaluation Template.htm 2/


{Describe the tasks these different kinds of user might want to perform.}

4 Extent of the Evaluation


{Describe which parts of the interface were evaluated (if there was too much to evaluate it all).}

5 Evaluators and Evaluation Environment


The hardware and software used by each evaluator is shown in Table 1.

{Tabular overview of the different evaluators and their evaluation environments: demographic data,
hardware, browser, type and speed of internet connection, etc.}

Evaluator Muhammad Waseem Iqbal Ahmed Mian Aslam Kiran Khan


Age 24 26 31 25
S ex male male male female
Web Browser Firefox 3.0.7 de Chrome 14.3 Opera 9.63 en IE 8.0.6001
Operating S ystem Windows XP SP3 Windows XP SP3 M ac OS X Windows Vista Home
Internet Connection 8 mbps, cello, cable 8 mbps, tele2, dsl 7.2 mbps, Orange, mobile internet 8 mbps, aonKombi, dsl
Monitor S ize 19" 17" 17" 11,3" TFT
Monitor Colours 32-bits 32-bits 32-bits 32-bits
Monitor Resolution 1280x1024 1152x864 1280x1024 800x600
browser Resolution 1280x1024 1152x864 1280x1024 800x600
Date of Evaluation 2009-03-28 2009-03-28 2009-03-29 2009-03-28
Time of Evaluation 09:00-10:00 15:15-16:30 11:00-12:30 14:30-15:30

Table 1: The evaluation environment used by each evaluator.

6 Analysis of the Main Problems


{One paragraph and screen shot for each of the top five most severe problems.}

{Screen shots should always be captured in PNG format, since PNG is lossless and has very good
compression. Make scaled-down versions of the screen shots for here (approximately 600 by 400), which
you can edit (draw on) to highlight your point, but also link to local copies of the unedited full-size
originals.}

6.1 Yellow Text


The main problem with... as shown in Figure X.
Figure X: On the home page...

{Here follow the next four problems in the order they appear in the final severity rankings, each with an
illustrative screen shot...}

7 List of Problems Found


{Aggregated list of all problems found, in descending order of average severity.}

{The name of each screenshot should be linked to the screenshot itself.}

Table 2 shows a list of all the problems found in the evaluation, sorted in descreasing order of average
severity.

S hort Location (how Found By S everity


No. Description S creenshot Heuristic
Title reproducible?) MW IA MA KK MW IA MA KK Av
1 Yellow In the chat room, n01-ka- Aesthetic dreamland/chat.html y y 4 4 4 4 4.00
Text the default text is screen.png and
an unreadable M
yellow colour. inimalist
Design
... Chat - M yChat -
Options
... in descending ...
order of average
severity until...
...
87 Green Visited links are prob87.png Aesthetic Everywhere y 0 0 1 0 0.25
Links displayed in and
green, which M
conflicts inimalist
somewhat with Design
the light grey
background.

Table 2: Aggregated list of all problems found, in descending order of average severity.

Code Me aning
FK Faran Khalid
HW Humza Waseem
HR Hamza Reza
y Found by this evaluator

Le ge nd: Name Codes.

Se ve Me aning
rity
4 Catastophic problem
3 Serious problem
2 Minor problem
1 Cosmetic problem
0 Not a problem
Av Average severity

Le ge nd: Severity Ratings.

References
{References to related work and related studies.}

[Nie2013] Jakob Nielsen; Heuristic Evaluation; Visited 2013-03-14.


http://www.nngroup.com/topic/heuristic-evaluation/

A Heuristics Used by the Evaluators


The evaluators used the Andrews General Usability Heuristics 2013 found in file heuristics.pdf
B Individual Evaluation Logs
The individual evaluation logs are listed below.

Name Log File


Harald Roth log-Waseems.txt
Christian Took etc.
Thomas Geer
Sally Smith

C Spreadsheet
The filled-in spreadsheet of all problems and positives including their ratings is helist.xls.

Ple ase note that this te mplate has be e n take n from the course we bsite of Prof. Ke ith Andre ws
available at HCI Practical Excersises

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