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Empowering Software Quality:

How Can Usability Engineering Reach These Goals?

Band (volume) 198

With an introduction from Ben Shneiderman
Editors: Andreas Holzinger, Karl-Heinz Weidmann

ca. 165 pages, € 16,- (OCG Members)/ € 21,50; link for order.

Abstract

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) & Usability Engineering (UE): An Interdisciplinary Challenge!

The Workgroup HCI&UE of the Austrian Computer Society (OCG) serves as a platform to promote this subject. With this regard the Workgroup is pleased having organized the first Usability Workshop with the motto: “Today together for better software of tomorrow”, which took place on 8th November, 2005 in Vienna. Our aim was to bring together Software PEOPLE and Usability PEOPLE and promote to bridge Psychology and Software Engineering. The successful blending of software engineering methodologies with user centered design will result in more effective systems for all users.

Contents includes:

• Managing Design Processes for Successful User Interfaces by Ben Shneiderman
• Assessing the Usability of an Interactive Information Visualization Method as the First Step of a Sustainable Evaluation by M. Rester, M. Pohl, K. Hinum, S. Miksch, S. Ohmann, C. Popow, and S. Banovic
• Highlighting – Or Why Google Is That Successful by Michael D. Kickmeier-Rust and Dietrich Albert
• Towards Cross-Cultural Adaptive Driver Navigation Systems by Rüdiger Heimgärtner and Andreas Holzinger
• Prägnanz in HCI-Design: Towards a Pattern Language by Karl Flieder
• Summative Evaluation of E-Collaboration Platforms by Use of the Analytic Hierarchic Process by Rainer Haas and Oliver Meixner
• Do dynamic text–only web pages improve usability for PDA users? by Giorgio Brajnik , Daniela Cancila, Daniela Nicoli and Mery Pignatelli
• Accessibility, the way to future interfaces and feedback possibilities - MediaWheelie as a best practice example by Alexander K. Nischelwitzer
• User Interface Issues of “DysLearning” Software for Dyslexic Children by Rita Mátrai, Cecília Sik Lányi and Zsolt Tibor Kosztyán
• Proceeding studies on behavior - not only a challenge for professional tools by Pascal Mangold
• Eye tracking in usability research: What users really see by Martina Manhartsberger, Norbert Zellhofer
• Lessons from Real-Life Usability Engineering in Hospital: From Software Usability to Total Workplace Usability by Andreas Holzinger and Hubert Leitner