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Abstract | ||
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Accessibility and usability have become increasingly important in design and development of technology. This poster briefly reviews how accessibility concepts may be included in computer science courses as students are educated to become practitioners. In a usability engineering course, the authors included a group development project that included an accessibility component. They conducted a survey of student attitudes toward these issues at the start and end of the course. Results of the survey indicate that students' awareness of issues related to usability and accessibility are increased after taking the course and completing the project. In particular, students showed a significant increase in their rating of importance for the item "broadening the range of technology users". The authors also performed a factor analysis of the survey responses and determined that items fell into three factors, one of which was concerned with accessibility and usability. |
Year | DOI | Venue |
|---|---|---|
2009 | 10.1145/1639642.1639684 | ASSETS |
Keywords | Field | DocType |
poster briefly review,factor analysis,survey response,usability engineering course,accessibility component,cs student,significant increase,computer science course,group development project,technology user,accessibility concept,usability,computer science education,accessibility,usability engineering | Pluralistic walkthrough,Web usability,World Wide Web,Usability engineering,Computer science,Usability,Universal usability,Human–computer interaction,System usability scale,Multimedia,Group development | Conference |
Citations | PageRank | References |
2 | 0.45 | 6 |
Authors | ||
4 | ||
Name | Order | Citations | PageRank |
|---|---|---|---|
| G. M. Poor | 1 | 2 | 0.45 |
| Laura M. Leventhal | 2 | 75 | 16.28 |
| Julie Barnes | 3 | 38 | 6.93 |
| Duke R. Hutchings | 4 | 6 | 0.89 |