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CHI
2006
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
Usability of interaction patterns
Interaction patterns are becoming an important method for bridging the gap between analysis and design in user-centered design. Recent studies, however, have indicated problems in...
Katarina Segerståhl, Timo Jokela
SIGSOFT
2008
ACM
14 years 5 months ago
The implications of method placement on API learnability
To better understand what makes Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) hard to use and how to improve them, recent research has begun studying programmers' strategies and ...
Jeffrey Stylos, Brad A. Myers
ISESE
2005
IEEE
13 years 10 months ago
Quality vs. quantity: comparing evaluation methods in a usability-focused software architecture modification task
A controlled experiment was performed to assess the usefulness of portions of a Usability-Supporting Architectural Pattern (USAP) in modifying the design of software architectures...
Elspeth Golden, Bonnie E. John, Len Bass
BCSHCI
2007
13 years 6 months ago
A pattern-based usability inspection method: first empirical performance measures and future issues
The Usability Pattern Inspection (UPI) is a new usability inspection method designed for the added downstream utility of producing concrete design recommendations. This paper prov...
Martin Schmettow, Sabine Niebuhr
TSE
1998
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13 years 4 months ago
Automatic Support for Usability Evaluation
—The main goal of this work is to propose a method to evaluate user interfaces using task models and logs generated from a user test of an application. The method can be incorpor...
Andreas Lecerof, Fabio Paternò