Few users of computer applications seek help from the documentation. This paper reports the results of an empirical study of why this is so and examines how, in real work, users s...
Our engagement with consumer products diminishes gradually over the last decades, which causes considerable usability problems. To dissolve these problems, the designer's emph...
The merit of automatic graph layout algorithms is typically judged on their computational efficiency and the extent to which they conform to aesthetic criteria (for example, minimi...
Helen C. Purchase, Jo-Anne Allder, David A. Carrin...
Although approaches to User Centered Software Development have existed for almost 20 years a rift still exists between theory and practice. In practice, many software projects are...
The comparative study described in this paper has been conducted to investigate the effect of including multimodal metaphors on the usability of e-learning interfaces. Two indepen...