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Synergy Between TRIZ and Usability: A Review

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Innovation is the main way that leads the industries to attain high profit. There several methods and tools to assist designers systematically towards the generation of new ideas and problem solving and TRIZ is one of the methods. However, this assistance is not enough to generate a successful and impeccable product, because an ultimate actor, the end user of the product during development is still underestimated. To satisfy the user’s requirements, designers or developers must keep into consideration also the usability methods. Unfortunately, these methods are not as organized as the TRIZ theory and often it is very challenging to apply them in an effective way. Therefore, it seems quite realistic to think through the development of innovative, as helped by a synergy between the Usability and the TRIZ theories. After some highlights about similarities and differences of these two methods, this paper develops the basis of a new integrated analytical method that able to suggest a collection of guidelines for the definition and implementation of engineering requirements.

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  1. Institute of Visual Informatics, National University of Malaysia (UKM), Bangi, Selangor, Malaysia

    Vanisri Batemanazan, Azizah Jaafar, Norshita Mat Nayan & Rabiah Abdul Kadir

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  1. Fac Info Science and Techn, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Selangor, Malaysia

    Halimah Badioze Zaman

  2. University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom

    Peter Robinson

  3. Center for Digital Video Process, Dublin 9, Ireland

    Alan F. Smeaton

  4. Computer Science and Information Enginee, National Central University, Jhongli City, Taiwan

    Timothy K. Shih

  5. Kingston University, Kingston upon Thames, United Kingdom

    Sergio Velastin

  6. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Institute of Visual Informatics, Bangi, Malaysia

    Azizah Jaafar

  7. Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia, Institute of Visual Informatics, Bangi, Malaysia

    Nazlena Mohamad Ali

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Batemanazan, V., Jaafar, A., Nayan, N.M., Kadir, R.A. (2015). Synergy Between TRIZ and Usability: A Review. In: Badioze Zaman, H., et al. Advances in Visual Informatics. IVIC 2015. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 9429. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-25939-0_45

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