ACM Transactions on Interactive Intelligent Systems • Vol 11 • No 1
On the Detection of Structural Aesthetic Defects of Android Mobile User Interfaces with a Metrics-based Tool
March 2021 • Narjes Bessghaier, Makram Soui, Christophe Kolski, Mabrouka Chouchane
Smartphone users are striving for easy-to-learn and use mobile apps user interfaces. Accomplishing these qualities demands an iterative evaluation of the Mobile User Interface (MUI). Several studies stress the value of providing a MUI with a pleasing look and feel to engaging end-users. The MUI, therefore, needs to be free from all kinds of structural aesthetic defects. Such defects are indicators of poor design decisions interfering with the consistency of a MUI and making it more difficult to use. To this end, w…