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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Usability Engineering"”.
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Usability Engineering Applied to an Electromagnetic Modeling Tool
… of this interface, feedback was collected from a usability specialist and a group of geophysics graduate students to study the steps users take to work through the 2D forward-modeling problem, and to analyze usability errors encountered while working with the interface to gain a better …
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Supporting Novice Usability Practitioners with Usability Engineering Tools
The usability of an application often plays an important role in determining its success. Accordingly, organizations that develop software have realized the need to integrate usability engineering into their development lifecycles. Although usability practitioners have successfully applied …
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Integrating scenario-based usability engineering and agile software development
… to design more usable systems. The fields of usability engineering and human-computer interaction are focused on exploring how people interact with computer systems. However, much of this work is inaccessible to agile practitioners because it does not align with core agile values and because …
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Developing and Evaluating the (LUCID/Star)*Usability Engineering Process Model
… systems developers have increasingly included usability engineering and interaction design as an integral part of software development. With recognition of the importance of usability come attempts to structure this new aspect of system design, leading to a variety of processes and …
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Usability Engineering of Text Drawing Styles in Augmented Reality User Interfaces
… insight into the processes and products of AR usability evaluation. Despite the fact that this technology fundamentally changes the way we visualize, use, and interact with information, very little HCI work in general, and user-centered design and evaluation in particular, have been done to …
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A Common Software Development Framework For Coordinating Usability Engineering and Software Engineering Activities
Currently, the Usability Engineering (UE) and Software Engineering (SE) processes are practiced as being independent of each other. However, several dependencies and constraints exist between the interface specifications and the functional core, which make coordination between the UE and the SE …
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Usability engineering of interactive voice responsive (IVR) systems in oral users of Southern Africa
This research study focuses on the feasibility of using the telephone as a tool for information access in the oral communities of Southern Africa. The OpenPhone and BGR systems are used as case studies and their designs have been influenced by field studies with the targeted users. The OpenPhone …
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Novel Use of Scenarios in the Usability Engineering of a Next-generation MLST Tool
… the utilization of scenarios in an iterative usability engineering process for the development of a next-generation multilocus sequence typing (MLST) tool. The following three research question were investigated during the usability process: (1) what are the differences in the elicited …
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Usability and Reliability of the User Action Framework: A Theoretical Foundation for Usability Engineering Activities
Various methods exist for performing usability evaluations, but there is no systematic framework for guiding and structuring assessment and reporting activities (Andre et al., 2000). Researchers at Virginia Tech have developed a theoretical foundation called the User Action Framework (UAF), which …
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An Infrastructure to Support Usability Problem Data Analysis
Increasing the usability of software by integrating usability engineering into the development cycle has become common practice. Although usability engineering is effective, it can be expensive, and organizations want to receive the best possible returns on their investments. Oftentimes, however, …
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Virtual Environment Usability Assessment Methods Based on a Framework of Usability Characteristics
… yet effective methods of incorporating usability engineering as an integral part of software engineering is a primary focus of human-computer interaction (HCI) research. However, much HCI research has focused primarily on inspecting and evaluating applications supporting command-line or …
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Vizability: Visualizing Usability Evaluation Data Based on the User Action Framework
Organizations have recognized usability engineering as a needed step in the development process to ensure the success of any product. As is the case in all competitive settings areas for improvement are scouted and always welcomed. In the case of usability engineering a lot of time, money, …
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A Taxonomy of Usability Characteristics in Virtual Environments
… research in both virtual environments (VEs) and usability, the exciting new technology of VEs has not yet been closely coupled with the important characteristic of usability --- a necessary coupling if VEs are to reach their full potential. Although numerous methods exist for usability evaluation …
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IDEAL: a tool to enable usability specification and evaluation
… ways of producing interfaces, attention to usability is rarely incorporated into such tools. The advancement of producing interfaces more rapidly without addressing their quality is of limited worth. This thesis reports on the design and prototype implementation of a software tool, IDEAL …
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Improving and mediating usability-to-software engineering communication
Our research investigates how to integrate usability concerns into the software development lifecycle and in particular how to improve the communication between usability and software engineers. In the last few years, many software development teams have tried to integrate user-centered design …
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Product usability and process improvement based on usability problem classification
… and practice have shown that the success of a usability engineering program depends on the identification and correction of usability problems, these problems remain an underutilized source of information. Insufficient guidance regarding the capture of usability problem data results in the loss …
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Design, deployment and assessment of a movie archive system in a film studies context
… video content but at the same time we use the usability engineering process to relate to the real tasks of real users in their real environments. We investigate how real users take advantage of technologies in a movie browsing system. By designing, building, deploying and assessing the usage of …
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Designing an enhanced web user experience: the use of "emotional probes" as a user-centred methodology for designing emotionally-engaged web interaction.
… the importance of balancing aesthetics and usability of Web design to enhance user experience. It aims to develop an effective methodology to better understand the dimensions of users' emotions, experienced in interaction with Web pages. The proposed methodological approach, called …
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Design and Evaluation of Domain-Specific Interaction Techniques in the AEC Domain for Immersive Virtual Environments
… applications in the AEC (architecture / engineering / construction) domain have not yet benefited from applying VEs. A review of prior work has suggested that 3D interaction has not reached a level that meets real-world task requirements. Most interaction techniques pay little attention …
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Augmented Reality Pedestrian Collision Warning: An Ecological Approach to Driver Interface Design and Evaluation
… into perceptual forms of interface elements, and usability evaluations utilized naturalistic driving scenarios and tasks for better ecological validity. A novel AR driver interface for pedestrian collision warning, the virtual shadow, was proposed taking advantage of optical see-through HUDs. A …
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