On explaining intuitiveness of software engineering techniques with user experience concepts

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anna Bobkowska
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
User Experience

A User eXperience Evaluation Framework for Mobile Usability

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (02) ◽  
pp. 235-279 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hee-Jin Lee ◽  
Joon-Sang Lee ◽  
Eunkyoung Jee ◽  
Doo-Hwan Bae
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
User Experience ◽  
Unified Modeling Language ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Unified Modeling ◽  
Analysis And Design ◽  
Software Products ◽  
Software Market ◽  
Unified Process ◽  
Mobile Usability

The worldwide mobile software market has grown dramatically since feature phones became popular in the early 1990s. In practice, mobile usability — which can be defined for a resource-constrained device in two ways, namely, User eXperience (UX) and User Interface (UI) — has been regarded as the key to gaining superiority in terms of both market share and customer loyalty. Unfortunately, de facto standards for software design and the development process, such as Unified Modeling Language (UML) and Rational Unified Process (RUP), do not seem to promote mobile usability in a systematic manner in practice. This paper proposes a systematic and generalizable approach to modeling and evaluating the properties of mobile usability, herein treating it as a first-class software quality from the perspective of software engineering. We devise a UX evaluation framework for mobile usability, which we call UX Evaluation Framework (UEF) throughout this paper. A UX is specified by inter-scene interactions between users and terminals of software products using Extended Menu Navigation Viewpoints (EMNVs); then, a model checker, NuSMV, is adopted to observe whether the EMNV model meets a set of given UX properties. Importantly, the analysis and design of RUP is extended to support the co-design of UX and UI so that major roles, activities and artifacts in the UX and UI can be explicitly monitored and controlled by stakeholders. Through case studies, we demonstrate that UEF works properly to treat software products that prioritize mobile usability. Consequently, UEF plays a key role in filling the gap between two research disciplines to address usability: software engineering and human–computer interactions.

Abstraction: An alternative neurocognitive account of recognition, prediction, and decision making

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Valerie F. Reyna ◽  
David A. Broniatowski
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Software Engineering ◽  
Systems Engineering ◽  
Evidence Based ◽  
Extensive Literature ◽  
Trace Theory ◽  
Fuzzy Trace Theory ◽  
Abstract Representations ◽  
Technical Systems

Abstract Gilead et al. offer a thoughtful and much-needed treatment of abstraction. However, it fails to build on an extensive literature on abstraction, representational diversity, neurocognition, and psychopathology that provides important constraints and alternative evidence-based conceptions. We draw on conceptions in software engineering, socio-technical systems engineering, and a neurocognitive theory with abstract representations of gist at its core, fuzzy-trace theory.

Assessing User Experience with Crutch Use

2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Harrington ◽  
Sharon Joines
Keyword(s):  
User Experience

Software Engineering for Real Time Systems

IEE Review ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 112
Author(s):  
Stuart Bennett
Keyword(s):  
Software Engineering ◽  
Real Time ◽  
Real Time Systems ◽  
Time Systems
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