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Call for papers
IFIP WG 13.2 "Methodologies for user centered systems design"
organizes in conjunction with INTERACT 2001 - workshop on
"Usability throughout the entire systems
development lifecycle"
9 July in Tokyo, Japan
UCD 2001 (http://www.hci.uu.se/~jg/UCD2001/)
BACKGROUND
The un-usability of systems, products and services is a tremendous
problem for users and consumers all over the world, despite the efforts
put in by researchers, usability practitioners and designers.
Therefore, usability still needs to be the main focus of our
activities. Research and development must focus more on developing
processes, methods and tools that significantly turn IT development in
another direction. In practice, usability aspects are usually regarded
very late (if at all) in software development.
Software development does not stop with delivery, nor do usability
issues. Most systems and products are modified and improved in a number
of releases over a number of years. Web sites are continuously updated
and modified. However, most efforts at working with usability matters
stop after the initial development process. What do we do after
delivery?
Furthermore, commercial software development models, such as Rational
Unified Process (RUP), Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM) are
becoming widely used in industry. Other software development models
with different approaches are also starting to attract attention from
industry, e.g. eXtreme Programming. These models are basically not
user-centered and most of them provide limited support for usability
activities. Thus, it is also important to find ways of integrating
usability aspects into such development models.
WORKSHOP PROCEDURES
The workshop aims at specifying the research agenda for developing
processes, methods and tools for User Centered Design (UCD) throughout
the software lifecycle, particularly within commercial software
development models. We also aim to share experiences in applying a UCD
perspective on the development of interactive systems. Submissions will
relate to the following issues:
UCD in a process perspective, including:
* Organizing and performing usability related work in practice
* UCD in the initial software development phases, e.g., usability and
requirement specifications.
* UCD and usability work after release
* Case studies of organizations addressing usability throughout the
software life cycle.
Incorporating usability and UCD into commercial software development
models, for instance:
* Usability in non-user-centered software development models
* Usability in use-case driven software development models
* UCD and engineering-oriented software development models.
Methods, tools, roles, and artifacts for UCD, e.g.:
* Cooperative design, evaluation and development
* Integrated design
* Capturing contextual aspects
* Multidisciplinary cooperation in practice, who does what and when?
The workshop participants will be required to read all the accepted
position papers in advance and participate electronically in the
production of a workshop agenda, prior to the workshop. The preliminary
agenda for the workshop will include very brief presentations of each
participant's position paper, a joint listing of critical issues and
breakout sessions to address these issues. Finally an attempt will be
made to specify critical aspects of usability in a lifecycle
perspective, possibly relating to an existing commercial software
development model.
PUBLICATION
A workshop report will be produced after the workshop and elaborated
papers will be published in an edited IFIP publication, "Usability
throughout the entire software development lifecycle".
SUBMISSIONS
Submissions stating the position of the author/authors (4-10 pages in
pdf format) should be sent by 20th of April 2001 to
[log in to unmask] The submissions will be peer reviewed and the
authors will be notified about acceptance/rejection by 31st of May
2001.
ORGANISER'S BACKGROUND
Jan Gulliksen is an associate professor of Human Computer Interaction
at the department of Human Computer Interaction, Uppsala University,
and guest researcher at the Centre for user oriented IT design (CID) at
the Royal institute of technology (KTH), Sweden. Jan is chairman of
IFIP working group 13.2 Methodologies for user centered system design.
Inger Boivie is a research student at the department of Human Computer
Interaction, Uppsala University. She has previously worked as an HCI
consultant at TietoEnator AB, Sweden. Jan and Inger have previously
organized two international workshops (at PDC '98 and INTERACT '99) and
five national workshops on User Centered Design
in practice.
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Jan Gulliksen, associate professor mailto:[log in to unmask]
Dept. for Human Computer Interaction Tel: +46-18.471 2849
Uppsala University, Fax: +46-18.471 7811
Box 337 Cellular: 070 - 425 0086
SE-751 05 Uppsala, Sweden http://www.hci.uu.se
Center for User-Oriented IT-Design (CID)
Royal Institute of Technology (KTH),
Stockholm, Sweden http://cid.nada.kth.se
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