Seffah / Metzker Adoption-centric Usability Engineering

Systematic Deployment, Assessment and Improvement of Usability Methods in Software Engineering
1. Auflage 2008
ISBN: 978-1-84800-019-3
Verlag: Springer
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 222 Seiten, Web PDF

Reihe: Computer Science

When should usability techniques be considered during the software development lifecycle in order to create a user-friendly software program? This book provides an integrative answer by proposing adoption-centric usability engineering (ACUE), a systematic process for the adoption, assessment, and deployment of usability engineering methods. As part of the process, a context profile is developed, which encodes human factors that contributed to acceptance or rejection of usability methods in past projects. This context-sensitive description of usability engineering is called a USEPack (Usability Engineering Experience Package). Written for software developers, managers, educators, and graduate-level students, this book provides a complete, step-by-step approach for cost-effective integration of usability engineering methods into the software development lifecycle.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Seffah, Ahmed

Metzker, Eduard

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Usability Engineering: Definitions, Methods, and Challenges for Integration.- On Usability and Usability Engineering.- Usability Engineering Methods Plethora.- Pitfalls and Obstacles in the Integration and Adoption Path.- ACUE Fundamentals, Architecture and Components.- Usability Engineering Integration as an Adoption Problem.- ACUE Architecture and Components.- ACUE Formal Description.- Operationalization and Validation.- How Effective Is ACUE? An Empirical Case Study.- Putting it into Practice: The ProUse Tool.- How Well do ACUE and ProUse Work? Overall Evaluation.- ACUE in Software Engineering: Current Stage and Perspectives.- ACUE and the Existing Software Engineering Methodologies.- Conclusion and Perspectives.