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Showing 1 to 20 of 113 for “"User centred"”.
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A user-centred approach to information retrieval
A user model is a fundamental component in user-centred information retrieval systems. It enables personalization of a user's search experience. The development of such a model involves three phases: collecting information about each user, representing such information, and integrating the model …
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A user-centred design framework for context-aware computing
… to mobile computer settings, and existing user-centred design approaches/frameworks are still in their infancy. This thesis proposes a framework to advance user-centred approaches to designing context-aware systems in order to help application developers (i) build richer descriptions or …
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MyRoom: A user-centred model of affective responsive architecture
… architecture which makes the individual user its focus, with the intention of promoting wellbeing. The key research questions are: What are the key system characteristics of an adaptive therapeutic single-room environment? How can embedded technologies be utilised to maximise the adaptive …
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The integration of hospital information systems through user centred design.
… an environment presents. Requirements for the users' interface to the potential HISS are derived using a task analytic approach, involving Task Analysis for Knowledge Descriptions (TAKD). A prototype system has been designed and subsequently evaluated in a hospital ward. The contribution of …
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Future-proof toilet design: A user-centred mixed-methods investigation
… Australians aged 62 to 89 years and involved user-centred mixed methods comprising semi-structured interview, anthropometric measurement, user-controlled fitting trial, design evaluation and motion trials. The findings of the semi-structured interview, presented in Chapter 4, demonstrate the …
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User-centred design of smartphone augmented reality in urban tourism context.
… heterogeneous and complex; 4) the target user group is in an unfamiliar environment; 5) tourists have different information needs from urban residents. Adopting a User-Centred Design (UCD) approach, the main aim of this research project was to make a theoretical contribution to design …
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User-centred and context-aware identity management in mobile ad-hoc networks
… are sprinkled across many services and users have no control over such identities. In this thesis, we review some issues of contextual computing, its implications and usage within pervasive environments. To tackle the above problems, it is essential to allow users to have control over …
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A framework for integrating user-centred Design and agile Development in small Companies
The integration of user-centred design (UCD) and Agile development is gaining increasing momentum in industry: the two approaches show promising complementarities and their convergence can lead to a more holistic software engineering approach relative to the application of just one of them. …
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A User-Centred Design Approach to Ubiquitous Computing and Framing Communication in Football
… insights from this research include validating a user need by identifying the problem space of communication errors during a game, a user want by acknowledging motivation and acceptance of emerging technology, and investigating the opportunity for wearable technology to enhance performance in …
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Cognitive User-centred Design Approach to Improve Accessibility for Blind People during Online Interaction
… common in the life of normal sighted users. In order to have a fair level of equality in the society, blind people must also be able to use these facilities with equal ease and effectiveness Many governments decided to implement e-Government applications to enhance the delivery of …
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Leveraging User Centred Design (UCD) to improve Small Medium Sized Enterprise (SME) cybersecurity engagement
… their engagement with SMEs by leveraging User Centred Design (UCD) principles. Improving providers’ ability to engage effectively with SMEs offers a promising path to increasing the adoption of protective measures which can prevent cyber-attacks. Drawing on UCD principles this thesis …
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The Project Community Framework: Towards Bridging the Gap between User Centred Design and Academic Scientific Software Development
… (academic SSD) suffers with a lack of User Centred Design (UCD). Typically, their focus is largely on the scientific software development itself.<br/>This research investigates the gap between UCD and SSD, so that UCD may be more widely applied to the scientific software development …
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The incorporation of web technologies by university libraries in the Southern African Development Community to implement user-centred services
… to deliver quality services to their user community. The aim of this study was to investigate the incorporation of web technologies into the services of university libraries in the Southern African Development Community (SADC) region in order to develop a user-centred model for the …
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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.
… 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 "Emotional Probes" (EPs), combines …
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Developing a persona-based user-centred design model in relation to idea generation that will both manage the product design processes and solve design problems
User-Centred Design (UCD) was proposed in the 1980s and, since then, its philosophy has helped to solve design problems, regardless of the advances in technology over time. The standard ISO 9241:210 (2010), formerly ISO 13407, provides guidance in human-centred design principles and activities …
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The way-finding journey within a large public building: a user centred study of the holistic way-finding experience across a range of visual ability
… current knowledge a research enquiry, based on a user-centred design approach, was implemented. Exploratory in nature, the methodology was inductive and it evolved throughout the study. A series of Research Principles, borrowed from the established methodologies of Grounded Theory (Glaser, 1968) …
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