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An Automatic User Activity Analysis Method for Discovering Latent Requirements: Usability Issue Detection on Mobile

Soojin Park¹, Sungyong Park², Kyeongwook Ma³

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Summary

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This study introduces an automated method for detecting quality issues in Internet of Things (IoT) systems by analyzing user activity models. Resolving detected symptoms improved mobile application usage success rates by 21%.

Keywords:

activity modeling context-awareness internet of things mobile application self-adaptive systems usability

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Software Engineering

Background:

The rise of the Internet of Things (IoT) necessitates systems capable of self-diagnosing quality attributes.
Autonomic devices require methods to ensure the quality of services they provide through collaboration.

Purpose of the Study:

To propose and evaluate a method for automatically detecting symptoms that degrade system quality attributes.
To enhance the reliability and user experience of mobile applications within the IoT ecosystem.

Main Methods:

Automatic generation of user activity models from real usage logs.
Merging multiple user activity models into a representative model.
Detecting deviations between representative and expected activity models to identify quality-hindering symptoms.
Implementation within a domain-independent framework for the Android platform.

Main Results:

The proposed method achieved an average precision rate of 70% for automatic symptom detection.
Resolving automatically detected symptoms led to an approximate 21% improvement in user implementation success rates for usage scenarios.
Quantitative evaluation across five open-source Android applications validated the method's effectiveness.

Conclusions:

The developed method offers an effective approach for automated quality attribute diagnosis in IoT systems.
The framework's domain-independent nature and Android platform compatibility enhance its practical applicability.
Automated symptom detection significantly improves the success rate of user interactions with mobile applications.