Adoption-centric Usability Engineering Systematic Deployment, Assessment and Improvement of Usability Methods in Software Engineering /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Seffah, Ahmed (Editor), Metzker, Eduard (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; User interfaces (Computer systems).; Computer Science.; Software Engineering.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.

Developing easy to use software systems which also increase productivity, performance and satisfaction to users is still one of major challenges faced by software engineers. In providing a new perspective on the integration and adoption of usability engineering methods by software development teams,...

Table of Contents:

• Usability Engineering: Definitions, Methods, and Challenges for Integration
• On Usability and Usability Engineering
• Usability Engineering Methods Plethora
• Pitfalls and Obstacles in the Integration and Adoption Path
• ACUE Fundamentals, Architecture and Components
• Usability Engineering Integration as an Adoption Problem
• ACUE Architecture and Components
• ACUE Formal Description
• 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
• ACUE in Software Engineering: Current Stage and Perspectives
• ACUE and the Existing Software Engineering Methodologies
• Conclusion and Perspectives.