Abstract
Despite growing pattern collections in the field of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), both on the Internet [1-3] and in books [4, 5], these collections have usability problems when being used by those software engineers, who lack expertise in human-centered design. In this paper we report on the development of a tool that is intended to improve accessibility and usability of HCI design patterns for engineers. We aim at a tool that is simple and safe to be used without expert knowledge. Such a tool can be used in what could be labeled “discount usability engineering”. A new type of HCI pattern language combined with a supportive tool is intended to overcome some of the gaps these engineers have in HCI-background.
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Hennipman, EJ., Oppelaar, EJ., van der Veer, G. (2008). Pattern Languages as Tool for Discount Usability Engineering. In: Graham, T.C.N., Palanque, P. (eds) Interactive Systems. Design, Specification, and Verification. DSV-IS 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5136. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-70569-7_11
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