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Showing 1 to 20 of 55 for “"User-centred design"”.
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A user-centred design framework for context-aware computing
… appreciation of human and social issues in design: usability issues remain unresolved particularly relating 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 …
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The integration of hospital information systems through user centred design.
… activities take place, presents the system designer with many of the classic problems with which the discipline of Human Computer Interaction (HCI) is concerned. Although a HISS has the potential to improve both the work conditions of clinical staff and the delivery of health care, this may …
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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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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
The purpose of this interdisciplinary design research study is to explore the nature of communication during a football game, to identify the needs of athletes and coaches based on their specific contexts, and to uncover opportunities relating to ubiquitous computing for improving their …
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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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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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Towards the full inclusion of people with severe speech and physical impairments in the design of Augmentative and Alternative Communication software
User Centred Design is accepted as being essential to good software design, only by involving the users throughout the development process can the developers understand what the end users really want (Sharp et al., 2007). One area which has in the past had little experience of User Centred Design …
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Formal Models and Refinement for Graphical User Interface Design
… properties we have proved are retained. When we design and build the user interfaces of our systems we are similarly keen to ensure that they have certain properties before we build them. For example, do they satisfy the requirements of the user? Are they designed with known good design …
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Embedding Design in Local Government: Role of Designers and Public Servants
… and public sector, value co-creation with users has emerged as a key to the success of products and services. Since the Design of the Time (DOTT) project launched in 2005 to improve public service under New Labour (1997–2010) in the UK, user-centred design has gained more traction as a …
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Information Collection in Forest Fire Response Operations; A Foundation for Situation Awareness
… awareness about the fire situation. Through a user-centred design approach, a design that facilitates the data input process is proposed. The design consists of an office and a mobile interface, which should be used in the headquarters and by the crew leaders on the field respectively to …
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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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Emotional Empowerment Design for Older People from a Positive Ageing Perspective: A Case Study of Zhengzhou, China
… of life and well-being of older people through design, so that they can become the dominant players in their own later life, and thus achieve positive ageing, is the main concern of this study. Existing research is not precise enough to identify the emotional needs of older people, has limited …
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Obstacles to wearable computing
… This study uses a novel method of participatory design fiction (PDFi) to understand potential users of everyday wearable technology through storytelling. I recruited participants from the general public and gave them a five-point prompt to create a design fiction (DF), which inspired the …
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Ambient assisted living deployment aims to empower people living with dementia (AnAbEL)
… solutions such as reminders and tracking users by Global Positioning System offer great advances that seek users' safety and to preserve their healthier lifestyle. However, these solutions address secondary parties by providing useful activities logs or alerts but excluding the main …
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Developing a mobile application for promoting periodontal health and metabolic control in diabetic patients: testing and feasibility study
… of the DiaDent Care mobile application, designed to enhance diabetes-periodontal selfmanagement. A user-centred design approach was employed to create an interactive platform integrating educational content, oral hygiene reminders, self-monitoring tools, and motivational features. …
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The Dyslexic User's Interface Support Tool (DUIST) - a framework for performance enhancing interface adaptation strategies for dyslexic computer users
… support techniques for dyslexic computer users are explored leading to the formulation of four central research models; dyslexia symptoms, symptom alleviating interface strategies, adjustable interface components and a dynamically adaptable interface preference elicitation mechanism. These …
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