Adoption-Centric Usability Engineering: Systematic Deployment, Assessment and Improvement of Usability Methods in Software Engineering

By Eduard Metzker and Ahmed Seffah

Book Overview

When should usability techniques be considered during the software development lifecycle in order to create a user-friendly software program? This book provides an integrative answer by proposing adoption-centric usability engineering (ACUE), a systematic process for the adoption, assessment, and deployment of usability engineering methods. As part of the process, a context profile is developed, which 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). Written for software developers, managers, educators, and graduate-level students, this book provides a complete, step-by-step approach for cost-effective integration of usability engineering methods into the software development lifecycle.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1849967032
• ISBN13: 9781849967037
• Release Date: October 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 222 Pages
• Weight: 0.57 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"