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We develop a support environment for software engineers that combine human centered design (HCD) policy with system development process to improve usability. We verified this support environment experimentally, and we observed that software engineers could not carry out works corresponding to “Analyze context of use”, which is one of HCD activities and is usually done easily by usability engineers. Through this verification process, we found that there is some difficult task about HCD activities for software engineers to carry out.
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Tanikawa, Y., Suzuki, H., Kato, H., Fukuzumi, S. (2014). Problems in Usability Improvement Activity by Software Engineers. In: Yamamoto, S. (eds) Human Interface and the Management of Information. Information and Knowledge Design and Evaluation. HIMI 2014. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8521. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07731-4_63
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