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Usability problems: do software developers already know?

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OZCHI '06: Proceedings of the 18th Australia conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Design: Activities, Artefacts and Environments

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https://doi.org/10.1145/1228175.1228264

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The result of usability evaluations is often accentuated as a distinctive input for developers to improve the usability of a software system. On the other hand developers say that many of the results from the usability evaluations are issues already known to them. This paper presents a study of usability problems as developers perceive them in their own emerging software in relation to usability problems experienced by users in a usability evaluation. The results indicate that having developers explicating their expectation on emerging software can provide a low-cost identification of problem areas, whereas a full scale usability evaluation provides specific knowledge of usability problems and their severity.

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OZCHI '06: Proceedings of the 18th Australia conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Design: Activities, Artefacts and Environments

November 2006

434 pages

ISBN:1595935452

DOI:10.1145/1228175

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Toni Robertson
University of Technology, Sydney
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Jesper Kjeldskov
Aalborg University, Aalborg East, Denmark
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Jeni Paay
Aalborg University, Aalborg East, Denmark

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