E-Book Review and Description:At this time's increasingly more aggressive and fiscally constrained enterprise setting is fostering the need to scale back costs and justify expenditures. Usability engineering is simply not however universally accepted, neither is it however an constructed-in side of software engineering, and would-be usability champions need additional help than ever to win the funding important to introduce and promote usability engineering strategies.Cost-Justifying Usability is the first book to address pragmatically and intimately the question of how usability engineering professionals and their managers can worth-justify their proposals and efforts.
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Cost-Justifying Usability An Update for an Internet Age Edited by Randolph G. Bias and Deborah J. 4.3 Usability Engineering in Web Site and Application Lifecycles107 4.3.1 What Contributions Can Usability Engineering Demonstrate? 108 4.4 What Is Cost-Benefit Analysis?116.
The book provides specific strategies for quantifying costs and benefits, making a convincing and worthwhile enterprise case for funding in usability engineering.This book features a radical and properly-constructed-in assortment of chapters written by expert and excellent usability specialists. Many of the times, it has been felt that the readers, who are using the eBooks for first time, happen to have a tough time before getting used to them. Mostly, it happens when the brand new readers quit using the eBooks as they are not able to utilize all of them with the appropriate and effective fashion of reading these books. There present number of motives behind it due to which the readers stop reading the eBooks at their first most attempt to make use of them. Nevertheless, there exist some techniques that may help the readers to have a nice and effective reading experience.Someone ought to correct the proper brightness of display before reading the eBook. It's a most common problem that almost all of the folks usually endure while using an eBook. Because of this they suffer from eye sores and head aches.
The very best alternative to overcome this acute difficulty is to reduce the brightness of the screens of eBook by making specific changes in the settings. You can also adjust the brightness of screen depending on the type of system you're utilizing as there exists lot of the means to correct the brightness.
It is proposed to keep the brightness to possible minimum level as this will help you to increase the time that you could spend in reading and provide you great comfort onto your eyes while reading.A good eBook reader should be set up. It'll be useful to have a good eBook reader in order to truly have a great reading experience and high quality eBook display. You can also use complimentary software that may provide the readers that have many functions to the reader than only an easy platform to read the wanted eBooks. You can even save all your eBooks in the library that is also provided to the user by the software program and have an excellent display of all your eBooks as well as get them by identifying them from their specific cover. Besides offering a place to save all your valuable eBooks, the eBook reader software even give you a high number of characteristics in order to enhance your eBook reading experience compared to the standard paper books.
You may also enhance your eBook reading encounter with help of alternatives provided by the software program such as the font size, full screen mode, the certain number of pages that need to be displayed at once and also alter the color of the background.You shouldn't use the eBook consistently for several hours without breaks. You need to take appropriate rests after specific intervals while reading. Many of the times we forget that we're supposed to take breaks while we are dealing with anything on the computer screen and are engrossed in reading the content on screen. However, this doesn't mean that you should step away from the computer screen every now and then. Continuous reading your eBook on the computer screen for a long time without taking any rest can cause you headache, cause your neck pain and suffer from eye sores and also cause night blindness. So, it is necessary to provide your eyes rest for some time by taking rests after particular time intervals. This can help you to prevent the problems that otherwise you may face while reading an eBook constantly.While reading the eBooks, you must favor to read huge text.
Normally, you'll note that the text of the eBook will be in moderate size. It's proposed to read the eBook with large text. So, increase the size of the text of the eBook while reading it on the monitor. Although this may mean that you will have less text on each page and greater number of page turning, you'll be able to read your desirable eBook with great convenience and have an excellent reading experience with better eBook screen.It's proposed that never use eBook reader in full screen mode. It is recommended not to go for reading the eBook in full screen mode. Although it might look easy to read with full-screen without turning the page of the eBook fairly frequently, it place ton of strain on your own eyes while reading in this mode. Always prefer to read the eBook in the same length that will be similar to the printed book.
This is so, because your eyes are used to the length of the printed book and it would be comfy that you read in exactly the same way. Test out different shapes or sizes until you find one with which you'll be comfortable to read eBook.By using different techniques of page turn you can also boost your eBook encounter. You can try many ways to turn the pages of eBook to improve your reading experience. Check out whether you can turn the page with some arrow keys or click a certain part of the display, aside from using the mouse to handle everything. Favor to make us of arrow keys if you're leaning forward.
Try using the mouse if you're comfortable sitting back. Lesser the movement you must make while reading the eBook better will be your reading experience.Technical problems One issue on eBook readers with LCD screens is that it will not take long before you try your eyes from reading. To help avoid this, you should use the “white on black” characteristic of your iPad or similar characteristics to other eBook readers.
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Author by: Deborah J. MayhewLanguange: enPublisher by: Morgan KaufmannFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 21Total Download: 701File Size: 48,5 MbDescription: Deborah Mayhew unites all current UE techniques is a single, authoritative resource, presenting a coherent lifecycle process in which each clearly defined task leads directly to the next. The book teaches concrete, immediately usable skills to practitioners in all kinds of product development organizations-from internal departments to commercial developers to consultants. Author by: Ahmed SeffahLanguange: enPublisher by: Springer Science & Business MediaFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 92Total Download: 622File Size: 45,9 MbDescription: Developing software systems which are easy to use while simultaneously increasing the productivity, performance and satisfaction of users is still a major challenge in software engineering.
Thus a large number of usability engineering methods have been proposed to systematically develop software with high usability. A large number of studies indicate that even basic usability engineering methods are not integrated in software development lifecycles practiced in industrial settings.
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Yet problems in the adoption of methods by project teams are rarely examined. This book provides a new perspective on the integration and adoption of usability engineering methods by software development teams. The adoption of methods by project teams – contrary to popular belief – is not assured just because it is mandated by the organization. This work argues that usability engineering methods can only be regarded as integrated in the software development process of an organization when these methods are practiced and accepted by development teams. So far no frameworks for examining the acceptance of methods by project teams and for exploiting such data for guiding project teams in method deployment are available. To address this problem, this book presents an approach which consists of a process meta-model for guiding project teams in the deployment of usability en- neering methods and a measurement framework for measuring the acceptance of the deployed methods.
The approach is called Adoption-Centric Usability Engineering. Author by: Ahmed SeffahLanguange: enPublisher by: Springer Science & Business MediaFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 53Total Download: 894File Size: 49,5 MbDescription: Human-CenteredSoftwareEngineering: BridgingHCI,UsabilityandSoftwareEngineering From its beginning in the 1980’s, the?eld of human-computer interaction (HCI) has beende?nedasamultidisciplinaryarena. BythisImeanthattherehas beenanexplicit recognition that distinct skills and perspectives are required to make the whole effort of designing usable computer systems work well. Thus people with backgrounds in Computer Science (CS) and Software Engineering (SE) joined with people with ba- grounds in various behavioral science disciplines (e.
G., cognitive and social psych- ogy, anthropology)inaneffortwhereallperspectiveswereseenasessentialtocreating usable systems. But while the?eld of HCI brings individuals with many background disciplines together to discuss a common goal - the development of useful, usable, satisfying systems - the form of the collaboration remains unclear. Are we striving to coordinate the varied activities in system development, or are we seeking a richer collaborative framework?
In coordination, Usability and SE skills can remain quite distinct and while the activities of each group might be critical to the success of a project, we need only insure that critical results are provided at appropriate points in the development cycle. Communication by one group to the other during an activity might be seen as only minimally necessary.
In collaboration, there is a sense that each group can learn something about its own methods and processes through a close pa- nership with the other. Communication during the process of gathering information from target users of a system by usability professionals would not be seen as so- thing that gets in the way of the essential work of software engineering professionals. Author by: Randolph G. BiasLanguange: enPublisher by: ElsevierFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 81Total Download: 99File Size: 54,8 MbDescription: You just know that an improvement of the user interface will reap rewards, but how do you justify the expense and the labor and the time—guarantee a robust ROI!—ahead of time? How do you decide how much of an investment should be funded? And what is the best way to sell usability to others? In this completely revised and new edition of Cost-Justifying Usability, Randolph G.
Bias (University of Texas at Austin, with 25 years’ experience as a usability practitioner and manager) and Deborah J. Mayhew (internationally recognized usability consultant and author of two other seminal books including The Usability Engineering Lifecycle) tackle these and many other problems. It has been updated to cover cost-justifying usability for Web sites and intranets, for the complex applications we have today, and for a host of products—offering techniques, examples, and cases that are unavailable elsewhere. No matter what type of product you build, whether or not you are a cost-benefit expert or a born salesperson, this book has the tools that will enable you to cost-justify the appropriate usability investment. Includes contributions by a host of experts involved in this work, including Aaron Marcus, Janice Rohn, Chauncey Wilson, Nigel Bevan, Dennis Wixon, Clare-Marie Karat, Susan Dray, Charles Mauro, and many others Includes actionable ideas for every phase of the software development process Includes case studies from inside a variety of companies Includes ideas from 'the other side of the table,' software executives who hold the purse strings, who offer thoughts on which proposals for usability support they've funded, and which ones they've declined.
Author by: William B. RouseLanguange: enPublisher by: John Wiley & SonsFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 25Total Download: 205File Size: 47,8 MbDescription: Fundamental Economic Principles, Methods, and Tools for Addressing Human Systems Integration Issues and Tradeoffs Human Systems Integration (HSI) is a new and fundamental integrating discipline designed to help move business and engineering cultures toward more human-centered systems. Integrating consideration of human abilities, limitations, and preferences into engineering systems yields important cost and performance benefits that otherwise would not have been accomplished. In order for this new discipline to be effective, however, a cultural change—starting with organizational leadership—is often necessary. The Economics of Human Systems Integration explains the difficulties underlying valuation of investments in people's training and education, safety and health, and work productivity.
It provides an overview of how the field of economics addresses these difficulties, focusing on human issues associated with design, development, production, operations, maintenance, and sustainment of complex systems. The set of thought leaders recruited as contributors to this volume collectively provides a compelling set of data and principles for assessing the economic value of investing in people, not just in general but in specific investment situations. The early chapters provide the contexts for HSI and investment analysis, illustrating the enormous difference context makes in how issues are best framed and analyzed. A host of practical methods and tools for investment valuation are then presented. Provided are: A variety of real-world applications of economic analysis ranging from military acquisition and automotive investment to healthcare and high-tech investments in general, in both the U.S. And abroad A range of economics-based methods and tools for cost analysis, cost-benefit analysis, and investment analysis, as well as sources of data for performing such analyses Differing perspectives on economic decision-making, including a range of private sector points of view, as well as government and regulatory perspectives In addition, five real-world case studies illustrate how such valuations have been done and their major impacts on investment decisions.
HSI professionals, systems engineers, and finance professionals who address investment analysis will appreciate the wide range of methods and real-life applications; senior undergraduates and masters-level graduate students will find this to be an excellent textbook that provides theory and supports practice. Author by: Etienne SamiiLanguange: enPublisher by: diplom.deFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 80Total Download: 869File Size: 53,9 MbDescription: Inhaltsangabe:Abstract: The market of mobile technologies is growing at an enormous rate worldwide. With the latest developments in technology, new services are being invented which were not even possible some years ago. As new devices, applications and services emerge, also the number of mobile users is increasing in a rapid manner. Mobile broadband networks like UMTS, EDGE or Wireless LAN make it possible to reach a large group of users who gain access with their personal mobile devices, equipped with multimedia and data capabilities. Due to this development, new interesting possibilities arise for many areas.
One of these areas is the tourism sector, which is being referred to in this thesis. The so-called m-tourism (mobile tourism) is an emerging field with an enormous marketing potential, as described in Chapter 2. Recent hardware inventions and developments are greatly pushing the market share. Companies are offering tailored products filling the needs of their customers. Personalization of services becomes a popular trend in this sector.
But what do users think about such a mobile tourism service? Do they feel the service has added benefits, compared to traditional media and Web-based services? Are those products really user friendly? What would be the crucial applications and qualities that make the big difference?
A range of usability issues concerning mobile services is being discussed in the science community; are there already viable, good solutions? With the recent hype of so-called location based services, the consumer keeps calling for more usable products, featuring more intuitive interfaces.
Others may fear being overwhelmed with features. Especially for the senior users, a relatively big target group for most mobile applications, these products often remain a mystery.
Usability has been and should always remain a key element for quality software and successful applications. In this thesis, several applications are described, some of their user interfaces are analyzed and major flaws discovered. Furthermore, a corresponding prototype user interface is introduced with a specific analysis of each development step, taken from the book The Usability Engineering Lifecycle by Deborah J. Once prototypical realisations are available, users can validate the implemented approaches and evaluate concepts and realization details from their point of view. Such first user experiences are a valuable guidance for further. Author by: Garcia-Ruiz, Miguel A.Languange: enPublisher by: IGI GlobalFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 75Total Download: 312File Size: 54,8 MbDescription: Information technologies play a significant role in modern information-driven societies, making a comprehensive understanding of digital media a fundamental requisite to success.
Cases on Usability Engineering: Design and Development of Digital Products provides readers with case studies and real-life examples on usability methods and techniques to test the design and development of digital products, such as web pages, video games, and mobile computer applications. Students, lecturers, and academics concentrating in computer science can use these cases to investigate how and why usability can improve the design of digital technology, offering diverse technological solutions that many academics have largely failed to disseminate. This book is part of the Advances in Human and Social Aspects of Technology series collection. Author by: Allen B. TuckerLanguange: enPublisher by: CRC PressFormat Available: PDF, ePub, MobiTotal Read: 24Total Download: 101File Size: 46,8 MbDescription: When you think about how far and fast computer science has progressed in recent years, it's not hard to conclude that a seven-year old handbook may fall a little short of the kind of reference today's computer scientists, software engineers, and IT professionals need. With a broadened scope, more emphasis on applied computing, and more than 70 chapters either new or significantly revised, the Computer Science Handbook, Second Edition is exactly the kind of reference you need. This rich collection of theory and practice fully characterizes the current state of the field and conveys the modern spirit, accomplishments, and direction of computer science.
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