The Integration of HCI and Software Engineering

HCI Practices in the Nigerian Software Industry

“…However, it is imperative that these graduates are well-equipped with hands-on skills in order to succeed in the industry [15].…”

Interplay between human-computer interaction and software engineering

“…The software engineering discipline is considered as a well-established field [46], whose activities began with the NATO conference in 1968. The focus of the software engineering field still remains to support the Department of Defense (DoD) type system which is overly large [20].…”

“…The commonalities which have been identified between the HCI and SE disciplines are presented in Table 1. Based on shared tools, Table 1 suggests that usability could form the basis of requirement and simple tools such as scenarios and use cases could be used for paper prototyping (a low fidelity prototyping) in usability testing, before the developers build functional prototypes [46,53]. Thus, undergraduate computer science students could be taught the fundamentals of HCI, and HCI undergraduates could also learn fundamental software development processes [46,53].…”

“…The human-computer interaction field is concerned with system context, with focus on the users, while software engineering is system-centred with focus on functionality [8,46]. Furthermore, HCI focuses on tasks and how users use software product or system to accomplish their tasks in their working environment, while SE focuses on the capabilities of software to achieve its underlying functions, purpose, and requirements [12].…”

“…Perception is a major reason why HCI is not well-integrated with software development lifecycle tools because HCI is considered a fragment of the overall system design, even though users view the interface as the actual system [46]. Some software engineering textbooks share this perception, and view HCI as 'add on' in interface design [46].…”