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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"User-Centred Design (UCD)"”.
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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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Designing Ummeli a case for mediated design, a participatory approach to designing interactive systems for semi-literate users
This dissertation documents a journey into the design of Ummeli with a community of semi‐literate job seekers in Khayelitsha, Cape Town whose primary access to the internet was through their mobile phones. Working closely with this community over many months, we developed Ummeli, a suite of tools …
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Assessing the suitability of user centric design methods when applied in a developing world context
… Within the field of HCI, it is recognised that user-centred design (UCD) methodologies need to be applied if ICT4Dev activities are to yield locally appropriate technologies. However, there is no overarching methodology or framework for the application of UCD within 4Dev design initiatives. This …
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Influences of new media communication on the deaf/hard of hearing as reflected in interaction design
… communication solution, via interaction design, for bridging the aforementioned communication gap between D/HoH and hearing people. This study is divided into two parts: a. Preliminary study; b. Primary research and creative practice. The preliminary study shows that new media …
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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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Sketching as a support mechanism for the design and development of shape-changing interfaces
… current research focus is on iterative hardware design, with devices taking many years to reach potential markets. Whilst the drive to develop novel hardware is vital, this usually occurs without consultation of end-users. Due to the prototypical nature of shape-change, there is no specific …
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Designing a mobile application interface to support mid-career professionals in creating better financial futures
… improve their financial future. When designing visualisation systems such as a mobile application interface, users' qualitative design feedback and quantitative usability evaluation are both important and complementary. The benefit of usability feedback in software development is …
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An Investigation of a Game Generator Tool to Teach Recursion
… of educational games to teach recursion. A User Centred Design (UCD) methodology was adopted to develop a prototype game generator tool called the Recursive Game Generator (RGG). Preliminary needs assessment and requirements analysis studies were conducted and conceptual design principles …
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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 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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User-centred design of smartphone augmented reality in urban tourism context.
… interaction (HCI) and professional designers alike. Much attention is directed towards Augmented Reality (AR) interfaces. Smartphone AR browsers deliver information about physical objects through spatially registered virtual annotations and can function as an interface to …
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Determinants of Early-stage User Involvement (EUI) in User Need Identification for Health Apps: An Exploratory Study
… deliver intended impact. Research shows that low user adherence — a primary barrier to successful adoption — is linked to insufficient perceived value, which stems from a mismatch between the app’s usefulness envisaged by developers and that experienced by users (patients, caregivers, and …
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An Investigation into a Distributed Virtual Reality Environment for Real-Time Collaborative 4D Construction Planning and Simulation
… and application of 4 Dimensional Computer Aided Design (4D CAD) is growing within the construction industry. 4D approaches have been the focus of many research efforts within the last decade and several commercial tools now exist for the creation of construction simulations using 4D approaches. …
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Design of a prototype mobile application interface for efficient accessing of electronic laboratory results by health clinicians
… of the application; this web application takes users through nine steps to obtain the results and is not designed for mobile devices. In addition, its access in remote rural health care facilities is a great challenge because of lack of supportive infrastructure. There is therefore an obvious …
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Reengineering the development of personas through a user-centred human machine teaming approach
Personas are widely used in user-centred design to capture users' goals, needs, behaviours, and pain points. They serve as narrative user models which represent a group of users and play a crucial role in various domains such as system design, software development, marketing, and content …