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
• Language: English
• Published: London : Springer London, 2009.
• Subjects: Computer science.; Software engineering.; Computer Science.; Software Engineering.; User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction.
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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:

• Part I: Usabililty Engineering
• On Usability and Usability Engineering
• Usability Engineering Methods Plethora
• Pitfalls and Obstacles in the Integration 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
• Conclusion and Perspectives
• References.