Paper Info
Title
Evaluating Usability-Supporting Architecture Patterns: Reactions from Usability Professionals
Abstract
Usability professionals and software engineers approach software design differently, which creates a communication gap that hinders effective usability design discussions. An online survey was conducted to evaluate how usability professionals react to Usability-Supporting Architecture Patterns (USAPs) as a potential way to bridge this gap. Members of the Usability Professionals Association (UPA) participated in a pretest-posttest control group design experiment where they answered questions about USAPs and software design. Results suggest that participants perceived USAPs as useful to account for usability in software architectures, recognizing the importance of the USAPs stated usability benefits. Additionally, results showed a difference in perception of the USAPs stated usability benefits between US and European participants. A better understanding of what the usability community thinks about USAPs can lead to their improvement as well as increased adoption by software engineers, which can lead to better integration of usability and HCI principles into software design.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1007/978-3-642-02574-7_36
HCI (1)
Keywords
Field
DocType
usability professionals,usability-supporting architecture patterns,usability community,effective usability design discussion,usaps stated usability benefit,software engineers approach software,better integration,software design,software engineer,usability professional,software architecture,pretest-posttest control group design,control group,software engineering,professional association,architectural pattern
Web usability,Usability engineering,Computer science,Usability,Usability lab,Usability goals,Human–computer interaction,Cognitive walkthrough,Usability inspection,System usability scale
Conference
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
5610
0302-9743
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Edgardo Luzcando100.34
Davide Bolchini248666.05
Anthony Faiola313716.65