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Human-Centered Software Engineering - Integrating Usability in the Software Development Lifecycle

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Editors:
  1. Ahmed Seffah

    1. Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

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  2. Jan Gulliksen

    1. Uppsala University, Sweden

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  3. Michel C. Desmarais

    1. Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada

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  • The concerns of integrating usability, HCI and user-centered design techniques, tools and practices into the entire software engineering lifecycle
  • The current gap between the SE and UE communities has prevented the transfer of UE techniques to the software engineering community. To a certain extent, this gap is also an obstacle for the validation and improvement of HCI and usability techniques
  • Ideas about potential and innovative ways to cross-pollinate the two disciplines
  • Successful and unsuccessful experiences in how to integrate usability into the software engineering lifecycle, in different sizes of organization
  • Avenues for building a tighter fit between HCI and software engineering practices and research

Part of the book series: Human–Computer Interaction Series (HCIS, volume 8)

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Table of contents (17 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xxx
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  2. Introductory Chapter

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. An Introduction to Human-Centered Software Engineering

      • Ahmed Seffah, Jan Gulliksen, Michel C. Desmarais
      Pages 3-14

  3. Principles, Myths and Challenges

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 15-15
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    2. Key Principles for User-Centred Systems Design

      • Jan Gulliksen, Bengt Göransson, Inger Boivie, Jenny Persson, Stefan Blomkvist, Åsa Cajander
      Pages 17-36

    3. HCI, Usability and Software Engineering Integration: Present and Future

      • Ahmed Seffah, Michel C. Desmarais, Eduard Metzker
      Pages 37-57

    4. Surveying the Solitudes: An Investigation into the Relationships between Human Computer Interaction and Software Engineering in Practice

      • Bill Jerome, Rick Kazman
      Pages 59-70

    5. Convergence or Competition between Software Engineering and Human Computer Interaction

      • Allistair G. Sutcliffe
      Pages 71-84

  5. UCD, Unified and Agile Processes

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 171-171
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    2. Which, When and How Usability Techniques and Activities Should Be Integrated

      • Xavier Ferre, Natalia Juristo, Ana M. Moreno
      Pages 173-200

    3. Coping with Complexity

      • Dave Roberts
      Pages 201-217

    4. Towards a Model for Bridging Agile Development and User-Centered Design

      • Stefan Blomkvist
      Pages 219-244

    5. Ripple: An Event Driven Design Representation Framework for Integrating Usability and Software Engineering Life Cycles

      • Pardha S. Pyla, Manuel A. Pérez-Quiñones, James D. Arthur, H. Rex Hartson
      Pages 245-265

  6. UCD Knowledge and UI design Patterns

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 267-267
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    2. Integrating User-Centered Design Knowledge with Scenarios

      • Steven R. Haynes, John M. Carroll, Mary Beth Rosson
      Pages 269-286
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Human-CenteredSoftwareEngineering: BridgingHCI,UsabilityandSoftwareEngineering From its beginning in the 1980’s, the ?eld of human-computer interaction (HCI) has beende?nedasamultidisciplinaryarena. BythisImeanthattherehas beenanexplicit recognition that distinct skills and perspectives are required to make the whole effort of designing usable computer systems work well. Thus people with backgrounds in Computer Science (CS) and Software Engineering (SE) joined with people with ba- grounds in various behavioral science disciplines (e. g. , cognitive and social psych- ogy, anthropology)inaneffortwhereallperspectiveswereseenasessentialtocreating usable systems. But while the ?eld of HCI brings individuals with many background disciplines together to discuss a common goal - the development of useful, usable, satisfying systems - the form of the collaboration remains unclear. Are we striving to coordinate the varied activities in system development, or are we seeking a richer collaborative framework? In coordination, Usability and SE skills can remain quite distinct and while the activities of each group might be critical to the success of a project, we need only insure that critical results are provided at appropriate points in the development cycle. Communication by one group to the other during an activity might be seen as only minimally necessary. In collaboration, there is a sense that each group can learn something about its own methods and processes through a close pa- nership with the other. Communication during the process of gathering information from target users of a system by usability professionals would not be seen as so- thing that gets in the way of the essential work of software engineering professionals.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

    Ahmed Seffah

  • Uppsala University, Sweden

    Jan Gulliksen

  • Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, Canada

    Michel C. Desmarais

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