Paper Number
1170
Abstract
Business information systems support a large variety of business processes and tasks, yet organizations rarely understand how users interact with these systems. User Behavior Mining aims to address this by applying process mining techniques to UI logs, i.e., detailed records of interactions with a system's user interface. Insights gained from this type of data hold great potential for usability engineering and task automation, but the complexity of UI logs can make them challenging to analyze. In this paper, we explore trace clustering as a means to structure UI logs and reduce this complexity. In particular, we apply different trace clustering approaches to a real-life UI log and show that the cluster-level process models reveal useful information about user behavior. At the same time, we find configurations in which trace clustering fails to generate satisfactory partitions. Our results also demonstrate that recently proposed representation learning techniques for process traces can be effectively employed in a realistic setting.
Recommended Citation
Abb, Luka; Bormann, Carsten; van der Aa, Han; and Rehse, Jana R., "Trace Clustering for User Behavior Mining" (2022). ECIS 2022 Research Papers. 34.
https://aisel.aisnet.org/ecis2022_rp/34
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