Title
Contextual Method For The Redesign Of Existing Software Products
Abstract
This article is concerned with the problem of improving software products and investigates how to base that process on solid empirical foundations. Our key contribution is a contextual method that provides a means of identifying new features to support discovered and currently unsupported ways of working and a means of evaluating the usefulness of proposed features. Standard methods of discovery and evaluation, such as interviews and usability testing, gather some of the necessary data but fall short of covering important aspects. The shortcomings of these approaches are overcome by applying an integrated and iterative method for collecting and interpreting data about product usage in context. This article demonstrates its effectiveness when applied to the discovery and evaluation of new features for standard Web clients.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1080/10447310709336956
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER INTERACTION
Keywords
DocType
Volume
usability testing
Journal
22
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1-2
1044-7318
1
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.38
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Rachel Jones1211.34
Natasa Milic-Frayling291775.24
Kerry Rodden369472.11
Alan F. Blackwell42042177.34