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Applying user-centered design methodology, we developed a usability training workshop for beginning developers which has remarkable impact on participants’ attitudes towards the collaboration wth nontechnical professions. Mainly through a simulation game we let course participants experience typical pitfalls of and opportunities for collaboration with non-technical professions in the development team, with the primary focus on User Interface Designers. Rather than teaching abstract high-level usability principles we induce learning by insight and social forms of learning.
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Latzina, M., Rummel, B. (2002). Collaboration-Based Usability Training for Developers. In: Herczeg, M., Prinz, W., Oberquelle, H. (eds) Mensch & Computer 2002. Berichte des German Chapter of the ACM, vol 56. Vieweg+Teubner Verlag. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-322-89884-5_29
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