Making usable, useful, productivity-enhancing computer applications

Gould, John; Boies, Stephen J.; Lewis, Clayton

doi:10.1145/99977.99993

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“…However, in some instances usability has been extended to cover also usefulness (e.g. in [22,28,50]), even though typically these are perceived as distinct concepts. Nevertheless, despite the ambiguities, one can state that HCI practitioners at least specialize in developing and ensuring usability, but evidently in recent HCI literature (e.g.…”

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Understanding the work of an HCI practitioner

Iivari

2006

Proceedings of the 4th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Changing Roles

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Users should be involved in the development of information technology (IT) artifacts. However, this is challenging, especially in product development context, in which Human Computer Interaction (HCI) practitioners tend to be hired to 'represent the users' in the development. However, also their work has proven to be challenging. This paper analyzes their work by utilizing a metaphor of IT artifacts as texts and their development as writing. It is assumed that during writing the IT artifact texts 'users are configured'. HCI practitioners are to contribute to the 'configuration of the user'. However, divergent roles are assigned to these practitioners, both in theory and in practice. Therefore, both theoretical and empirical analyses of the work of the HCI practitioners are carried out, and implications both for theory and practice are discussed. Particularly the semiotic approach introduced in this paper and its implications on HCI theory are reflected on.

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Understanding the work of an HCI practitioner

Iivari

2006

Proceedings of the 4th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Changing Roles

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“…(ISO 1998). The basic concept of usability has been used as the basis for establishing a set of principles that can guide a user-oriented design process (Gould and Lewis 1985, Hewett and Meadow 1986, Gould et al 1991, Mulligan et al 1991. Whilst these principles, outlined below, appear rather intuitive they nevertheless provide a logical path through the design process.…”

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“…Whilst these principles, outlined below, appear rather intuitive they nevertheless provide a logical path through the design process. Unfortunately they are not frequently applied to product development (Gould et al 1991, Kujala et al 2001.…”

Section: User-oriented Software Design Principlesmentioning

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Online Biodiversity Resources - Principles for Usability

Neale¹,

Pullan²,

Watson³

2007

Biodiv. Inf.

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Abstract.-Online biodiversity portals and databases enabling access to large volumes of biological information represent a potentially extensive set of resources for a variety of user groups. However, in order for these resources to live up to their promise they need to be demonstrably useful to the communities they are intended to serve. We discuss a number of principles that can be applied to portal development that assist in defining the scope of user communities, determining their requirements within the context of the data available and establishing realistic goals for a portal or portal development tools. We highlight a lack of user involvement and formalised requirements analysis in biodiversity portal projects to date, and compare this with a similar project in the Astrophysics community. It is concluded that the poor understanding of both the users and their tasks that arises from this lack of analysis makes it difficult to assess the success of a portal and increases the risk of the portal being judged to have failed. We suggest that a change in the way large biodiversity portal projects are managed, presented and funded could lead to an increased perception of success with minimal change in the underlying infrastructure, yet enhancing the life expectancy of such projects.

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“…A widely accepted process for generating user requirements and applying them within system development is 'iterative design', a cyclical methodology of specifying user requirements, developing a system prototype, testing this with users, refining the requirements, modifying the prototype, retesting, etc. (Gould et al, 1991; ISO 9241-210, 2010). This process is intended to ultimately improve the quality and functionality of the system design for the users.…”

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An analysis of specialist and non-specialist user requirements for geographic climate change information

Maguire

2013

Applied Ergonomics

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Citation: MAGUIRE, M., 2013. An analysis of specialist and non-specialist user requirements for geographic climate change information. Applied Ergonomics, 44 (6), pp. 874 885. This item was submitted to Loughborough's Institutional Repository (https://dspace.lboro.ac.uk/) by the author and is made available under the following Creative Commons Licence conditions.For the full text of this licence, please go to: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/2.5/ 1 An analysis of specialist and non-specialist user requirements for geographic climate change information Martin C. Maguire Loughborough Design School, Loughborough University, Ashby Road, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, UK m.c.maguire@lboro.ac.uk ABSTRACTThe EU EuroClim project developed a system to monitor and record climate change indicator data based on satellite observations of snow cover, sea ice and glaciers in Northern Europe and the Arctic. It also contained projection data for temperature, rainfall and average wind speed for Europe. These were all stored as data sets in a GIS database for users to download. The process of gathering requirements for a user population including scientists, researchers, policy makers, educationalists and the general public is described. Using an iterative design methodology, a user survey was administered to obtain initial feedback on the system concept followed by panel sessions where users were presented with the system concept and a demonstrator to interact with it. The requirements of both specialist and nonspecialist users is summarised together with strategies for the effective communication of geographic climate change information.Keywords: climate change; geographic information; graphical representation; user needs IntroductionClimate change can affect the living conditions of people worldwide. Dramatic changes may occur with the weather becoming more extreme, along with greater frequency of flooding, droughts and hurricanes. It is not known whether northern Europe will experience regional cooling or warming in a future warmer world. A report by the UK Climate Impacts Programme (Chapman, 2002) states that summer temperatures in the UK, for instance, could regularly reach 40°C (104°F) by the year 2080 as global warming appears to gather pace. Prince Charles called climate change the "greatest challenge to face man" (Mukherjee, 2005) while it is also observed that sea-ice is retreating dramatically in the autumn as well as the summer months (Amos, 2013). The potential effects of climate change are brought home by powerful images of sea level rise, coastal erosion, drought, displacement of people and changes in the habitat of wildlife. These developments are documented officially by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (http://www.ipcc.ch).To support climate change research, there is a need for current data from the environment. Satellite monitoring of climate change indicators such as sea ice, snow and glaciers in Northern Europe and the Arctic is one source. This paper presents the results of...

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Making usable, useful, productivity-enhancing computer applications

Cited by 175 publications

References 18 publications

Understanding the work of an HCI practitioner

Understanding the work of an HCI practitioner

Online Biodiversity Resources - Principles for Usability

An analysis of specialist and non-specialist user requirements for geographic climate change information

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