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Sharing usability information in interactive system development

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Paula M. Bach,

Jiang Hao,

John M. CarrollAuthors Info & Claims

CHASE '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Cooperative and human aspects of software engineering

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1370114.1370117

Published: 13 May 2008 Publication History

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In this paper we report on a preliminary study of usability information sharing in interactive system development. The study was conducted at a large technology company in the United States. The purpose of the study was to understand the usability information sharing practices of various members of multidisciplinary interactive system development teams. We found that the different job roles, specifically, usability expert, developer, and project manager share usability information in many ways.

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Ardini AHosseini MAlrobai AShahri APhalp KAli R(2014)Social computing for software engineeringComputer Science Review10.1016/j.cosrev.2014.08.00213:C(75-93)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.cosrev.2014.08.002
Bach PJiang HCarroll J(2012)Sharing Usability InformationComputer Engineering10.4018/978-1-61350-456-7.ch507(1181-1195)Online publication date: 2012
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-456-7.ch507
Heuwing BPaternò FLuyten KMaurer F(2011)Sustainable management of usability informationProceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems10.1145/1996461.1996542(303-306)Online publication date: 13-Jun-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1996461.1996542

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Sharing usability information in interactive system development
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing theory, concepts and paradigms
      1. Computer supported cooperative work
2. Social and professional topics
  1. Professional topics
    1. Computing and business
      1. Computer supported cooperative work

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CHASE '08: Proceedings of the 2008 international workshop on Cooperative and human aspects of software engineering

May 2008

120 pages

ISBN:9781605580395

DOI:10.1145/1370114

Conference Chairs:
Li-Te Cheng
IBM, USA
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Cleidson de Souza
UFPA, Brazil
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Yvonne Dittrich
IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Michael John
Fraunhofer, Germany
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Orit Hazzan
Technion, Israel
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Frank Maurer
University of Calgary, Canada
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Helen Sharp
Open University, UK
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Janice Singer
NRC, Canada
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Susan Elliot Sim
University of CA, Irvine, USA,
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Jonathan Sillito
University of Calgary, Canada
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Margaret-Anne Storey
University of Victoria, Canada
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Bjørnar Tessem
University of Bergen, Norway
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Gina Venolia
Microsoft Research, USA

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Ardini AHosseini MAlrobai AShahri APhalp KAli R(2014)Social computing for software engineeringComputer Science Review10.1016/j.cosrev.2014.08.00213:C(75-93)Online publication date: 1-Nov-2014
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1016/j.cosrev.2014.08.002
Bach PJiang HCarroll J(2012)Sharing Usability InformationComputer Engineering10.4018/978-1-61350-456-7.ch507(1181-1195)Online publication date: 2012
https://doi.org/10.4018/978-1-61350-456-7.ch507
Heuwing BPaternò FLuyten KMaurer F(2011)Sustainable management of usability informationProceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems10.1145/1996461.1996542(303-306)Online publication date: 13-Jun-2011
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1996461.1996542

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