…of these components can have a severe impact on the usefulness and perceived robustness of the system. This is most obvious for data loss, but tools that are not backward-compatible…
…a relationship with them; to learn more about them and their needs. In practice though, this is difficult. Gathering useful requirements and performing valid evaluations is already a significant challenge…
…defined targets For our team, customer councils have helped to ensure quality user research while changing to an Agile development culture. Winter is coming…but our councils help us to prepare…
…the complexity of closed captioning and its highly-interpretative product, let’s explore examples from the two films The Artist and Knight and Day, and the long-running animated TV show Futurama. The…
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…it “at a glance.” Aren’t there existing standards for user research reports? Yes, there are existing standards. The usability community has an international standard, ISO/IEC 25062:2006 that provides a “common…
…the needs of all domain users. Use Cases Capture High-Level Communication Needs We solicited the communication needs of approximately eighty domain experts from three aging services providers and similar organizations…
…be involved in intra and interstate wars. Computing technology can play a role in promoting democracy. For example, social media is increasingly being used to organize protests in non-democratic countries,…
…level of frustration. In addition, they may not be able to complete the practice exercises assigned by the teacher. None of these problems are new. Parents also need to participate…
…of communication, or open potential for new ways of communicating our emotions and understanding others. As in the space age-inspired futurism of Pierre Cardin’s 1960’s catwalk shows, fashion can create…