{"title":"Crowdsourced user interface testing for multimedia applications","authors":"Raynor Vliegendhart, E. Dolstra, J. Pouwelse","doi":"10.1145/2390803.2390813","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Conducting a conventional experiment to test an application's user interface in a lab environment is a costly and time-consuming process. In this paper, we show that it is feasible to carry out A/B tests for a multimedia application through Amazon's crowdsourcing platform Mechanical Turk involving hundreds of workers at low costs. We let workers test user interfaces within a remote virtual machine that is embedded within the HIT and we show that technical issues that arise in this approach can be overcome.","PeriodicalId":429491,"journal":{"name":"CrowdMM '12","volume":"24 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2012-10-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"12","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"CrowdMM '12","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1145/2390803.2390813","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Conducting a conventional experiment to test an application's user interface in a lab environment is a costly and time-consuming process. In this paper, we show that it is feasible to carry out A/B tests for a multimedia application through Amazon's crowdsourcing platform Mechanical Turk involving hundreds of workers at low costs. We let workers test user interfaces within a remote virtual machine that is embedded within the HIT and we show that technical issues that arise in this approach can be overcome.