Dashboard Analyzer : a tool for analysis of dashboard visual characteristics

dashboard, usability, evaluation, aesthetics, guideline review, usability metrics, subjective perception

Dashboard analyzer is a Java application which provides tools for processing and analyzing of screenshots of dashboard user interfaces. It was created as part dissertation in Brno University of Technology: http://www.fit.vutbr.cz/~ihynek/dashboards/

It provides following functionality:

• loads images (from file or URL)
• detects (automatically/manually using the interactive editor) regions which represent visually dominant objects (with respect to Gestalt laws / subjective perception of the user)
• performs image operations and filters (gray-scale, posterization, thresholding, Hough-transform, etc.), show image histograms
• performs pixel-based metrics analyzing UI characteristics (colorfulness, pixel-based balance, symmetry, etc...)
• performs object-based metrics analyzing UI characteristics (Ngo's metrics of aesthetics and their modifications)
• processes folders containing various UI descriptions of regions (analysis of subjective perception of users, generating heatmaps, etc.)

https://github.com/Jirka/dash

GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0