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

✍ Scribed by Ahmed Seffah, Jan Gulliksen, Michel C. Desmarais (auth.), Ahmed Seffah, Jan Gulliksen, Michel C. Desmarais (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer
• Year: 2005
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 391
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages 1-1
An Introduction to Human-Centered Software Engineering....Pages 3-14
Front Matter....Pages 15-15
Key Principles for User-Centred Systems Design....Pages 17-36
HCI, Usability and Software Engineering Integration: Present and Future....Pages 37-57
Surveying the Solitudes: An Investigation into the Relationships between Human Computer Interaction and Software Engineering in Practice....Pages 59-70
Convergence or Competition between Software Engineering and Human Computer Interaction....Pages 71-84
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Experience with Using General Usability Scenarios on the Software Architecture of a Collaborative System....Pages 87-112
Linking User Needs and Use Case-Driven Requirements Engineering....Pages 113-125
Guiding Designers to the World of Usability: Determining Usability Requirements Through Teamwork....Pages 127-145
Transforming Usability Engineering Requirements into Software Engineering Specifications: From PUF to UML....Pages 147-169
Front Matter....Pages 171-171
Which, When and How Usability Techniques and Activities Should Be Integrated....Pages 173-200
Coping with Complexity....Pages 201-217
Towards a Model for Bridging Agile Development and User-Centered Design....Pages 219-244
Ripple: An Event Driven Design Representation Framework for Integrating Usability and Software Engineering Life Cycles....Pages 245-265
Front Matter....Pages 267-267
Integrating User-Centered Design Knowledge with Scenarios....Pages 269-286
Patterns of Integration: Bringing User Centered Design into the Software Development Lifecycle....Pages 287-308
UI Design Patterns: Bridging Use Cases and UI Design....Pages 309-329
UI Design Patterns: From Theory to Practice....Pages 331-351

✦ Subjects

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction