Usability Analysis of an Educational Data Mining Framework

Abstract

This paper presents a usability analysis of an educational data mining framework called FMDEV. The overall goal is to understand how this framework can provide a better usability to users that do not have a prior knowledge of Data science. Through a heuristic evaluation, usability problems were revealed, and usability tests confirmed these problems were affecting the user’s journey while interacting with the system. The results of this analysis indicates that it is possible to achieve an approximation between data mining tools and non-technical professionals when their behavior as real users are taken into account in the system development process.