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    Mario Amrehn, Stefan Steidl, Reinier Kortekaas, Maddalena Strumia,\
    Markus Weingarten, Markus Kowarschik, Andreas Maier
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title: 'A Semi-Automated Usability Evaluation Framework for Interactive Image Segmentation Systems'
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the best of our knowledge, there is not one publication in which user based scribbles are combined with standardized questionnaires in order to assess an interactive image segmentation system’s quality. This type of synergetic usability measure is a contribution of this work. In order to provide a guideline for an objective comparison of interactive image segmentation approaches, a prototype providing a pictorial user input, introduced in **Sec.**\[sec:semi-manual\_prototype\], is compared to a prototype with a guiding menu-driven [UI]{}, described in **Sec.**\[sec:guided\_prototype\]. Both evaluation results are analyzed with respect to a joint prototype, defined in **Sec.**\[sec:joint\_prototype\], incorporating aspects of both interface techniques. All three prototypes are built utilizing modern web technologies. An evaluation of the interactive prototypes is performed utilizing pragmatic usability aspects described in **Sec.**\[sec:results\_pragmatic\], as well as hedonic usability aspects analyzed in **Sec.**\[sec:results\_hedonic\].

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