Adoption-centric usability engineering: systematic deployment, assessment and improvement of usability methods measurement in software engineering

Where should usability techniques and HCD knowledge be considered in the existing software development lifecycle to maximize benefits gained from SE and HCD approaches? This book provides an integrative answer while proposing a systematic approach for the adoption, assessment and deployment of usability engineering methods within software development teams. The proposed approach, calledadoption-centric usability engineering (ACUE), provides a process to capture usability engineering methods together with a context profile. The context profile 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). Proposes a proven approach for integrating usability methods within software engineering, with an explicit methodology Borne out of a collaboration between Colombia University and DaimlerChrysler Competition touches on need for integration, but does not have same explicit method INDICE: Part I: Usabililty Engineering.- On Usability and Usability Engineering.- Usability Engineering Methods Plethora.- Pitfalls and Obstacles in theIntegration and Adoption Path.- Part II: ACUE Fundamentals, Architecture and Components.- Usability Engineering Integration as an Adoption Problem.- ACUE Architecture and Components.- ACUE Formal Description.- Part III: 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.- Part IV: ACUE in Software Engineering: Current Stage and Perspectives.- ACUE and the Existing Software Engineering Methodologies.- Conclusionand Perspectives.- References.

• ISBN: 978-1-84800-018-6
• Editorial: Springer
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 235
• Fecha Publicación: 01/11/2008
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés