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Usability Engineering

October 2001

Intermediate to advanced

448 pages

12h 44m

English

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1.1 Design by Scenario: Marissa’s Gravity Project1.2 Managing Software Development1.3 Usability in Software Development1.4 Scenario-Based Usability Engineering1.5 Doing Scenario-Based Usability Engineering1.6 Example-Based Learning of SBD
2.1 Analyzing Work Practices2.2 Getting Users Involved2.3 Science Fair Case Study: Requirements Analysis
3.1 Designing Effective Activities3.2 Designing Comprehensible Activities3.3 Designing Satisfying ActivitiesScience Fair Case Study: Activity Design
4.1 Stages of Action in Human-Computer Interaction4.2 Perceiving Information4.3 Interpreting Information4.4 Making Sense of Information4.5 Science Fair Case Study: Information Design4.6 Consistency and Coherence

5.1 Selecting a System Goal5.2 Planning an Action Sequence5.3 Executing an Action Sequence5.4 Science Fair Case Study: Interaction Design
6.1 Exploring User Requirements6.2 Choosing Among Alternatives6.3 Usability Testing6.4 Evolutionary Development6.5 Science Fair Case Study: Prototyping
7.1 Usability Specifications for Evaluation7.2 Analytic Methods7.3 Empirical Methods7.4 Science Fair Case Study: Usability Evaluation
8.1 The Production Paradox8.2 Paper and Online Manuals8.3 Demonstrations and Tutorials8.4 Information in the Interface8.5 Socially Mediated Documentation8.6 Using Context and Intelligence8.7 Science Fair Case Study: Documentation Design
9.1 Collaborative Systems9.2 Ubiquitous Computing9.3 Intelligent User Interfaces9.4 Simulation and Virtual Reality9.5 Science Fair Case Study: Emerging Interaction Paradigms
10.1 Usability in Organizations10.2 Internationalization and Localization10.3 Ethics of Usability
A.1 Science Fair Case Study: How to Represent Visitors?