People and Computers XIII: Proceedings of HCI ?98 (BCS Conference Series)

ISBN 10: 3540762612 / ISBN 13: 9783540762614

Published by Springer, 1998

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Synopsis:

The need for ensuring that usability measurement results can contribute to the ongoing development of a software product in a formative way is the main theme of this paper. It is recognized that acquiring, structuring, and analysing data about the actual progression of a product's development is a challenging task. Even more difficult, is the problem of making the results of any analysis of that data readily accessible to all the participants at regular intervals in the process. The paper presents an approach to supporting that process exemplified in SEDRES (Systems Engineering Data Representation and Exchange Standardization), a European Aerospace collaborative project on developing a data exchange capability for design tools. The main subject is the role of a software tool called NUD*IST (Non-numerical Unstructured Data Indexing Searching and Theorizing) (QSR, 1997), in providing support for structuring and analysing longitudinal data and for regular feedback to the project partners about the product under development. The paper begins with an overview of the context of use, a systems engineering project involving five major companies in the European Aerospace industry. SEDRES is a three year project which started in January 1996, co-funded by an ESPRIT grant from the European Commission. The project partners comprise Aerospatiale, Alenia, British Aerospace, Daimler-Benz Aerospace, Saab and Linkoping University (Sweden), the Australian Centre for Test & Evaluation (ACTE), and Loughborough University Telecommunications and Computer-Human Interaction (LUTCHI) Research Centre.

Synopsis: These proceedings contain a selection of refereed papers on human computer interaction topics presented at the HCI '98 conference. This conference is the annual conference of the British HCI Group, which was held at Sheffield Hallam University in September 1998. HCI '98 is the European human computer interaction forum. HCI is concerned with the effective utilization of computing and communication technology by humans, organizations and society. In this proceedings, a range of HCI-related topics are covered, from the human and social sciences, computer science, technology, education and design. In addition, innovative ways of using computer systems that exploit the emerging new technologies are presented, including multimedia and multimodal systems, wearable computers and virtual reality. "People and Computers XIII" represents a comprehensive guide to research in HCI which should be useful reading for all researchers, designers and manufacturers who need to keep abreast of developments in HCI.

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Title: People and Computers XIII: Proceedings of ...
Publisher: Springer
Publication Date: 1998
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New