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Increasing the impact of usability work in software development

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Tobias Uldall-Espersen,

Erik Frøkjær,

Ann Blandford,

Timo JokelaAuthors Info & Claims

CHI EA '07: CHI '07 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 2873 - 2876

https://doi.org/10.1145/1240866.1241099

Published: 28 April 2007 Publication History

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A key challenge when producing usable and useful software is the lack of impact of usability work on software development. We aim at developing a more coherent and realistic understanding of this challenge and the possibilities of how to increase the impact from usability work when developing high quality software products. We present a workshop gathering usability practitioners and researchers in order to establish and thoroughly discuss a corpus of case studies covering a broad range of usability practices in software development. The result of the workshop will be summarized in a conference paper and an international recognized scientific publisher will publish the case studies.

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April 2007

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ISBN:9781595936424

DOI:10.1145/1240866

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The Pennsylvania State University, USA
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