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NETWORKING
2004
13 years 6 months ago
Bounds on Benefits and Harms of Adding Connections to Noncooperative Networks
Abstract. In computer networks (and, say, transportation networks), we can consider the situation where each user has its own routing decision so as to minimize noncooperatively th...
Hisao Kameda
CSCW
2010
ACM
14 years 2 months ago
API peer reviews: a method for evaluating usability of application programming interfaces
API usability tests in the lab are time and resource intensive, thus allowing a relatively small percentage of the API namespace to be evaluated. We describe a group-based usabili...
Umer Farooq, Dieter Zirkler
ACMDIS
2010
ACM
13 years 5 months ago
Some consideration on the (in)effectiveness of residential energy feedback systems
Energy feedback systems, particularly residential energy feedback systems (REFS), have emerged as a key area for HCI and interaction design. However, we argue that HCI researchers...
James Pierce, Chloe Fan, Derek Lomas, Gabriela Mar...
ISESE
2005
IEEE
13 years 11 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
SIGDOC
1997
ACM
13 years 9 months ago
Usability Studies of WWW Sites: Heuristic Evaluation vs. Laboratory Testing
This paper describes the strengths and weaknesses of two usability assessment methods frequently applied to web sites. It uses case histories of WWW usability studies conducted by...
Laurie Kantner, Stephanie Rosenbaum