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I-USED'09
The Interplay between Usability Evaluation and Software Development

Proceedings of the Second International Workshop on the Interplay between Usability Evaluation and Software Development

Uppsala, Sweden, August 24, 2009.

Silvia Abrahão, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
Kasper Hornbæk, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Effie Lai-Chong Law, ETH Zürich, Switzerland and University of Leicester, United Kingdom
Jan Stage, Aalborg University, Denmark

Table of Contents

Preface

Keynote Speech

1. User Centred Design and Agile Software Development Processes: friends or foes?
   Helen Petrie

Usability and User-Centred Design

1. Criteria for Selecting Methods in User Centred Design
   Nigel Bevan
2. The Usability Paradox
   Mark Santcroos, Arnold Vermeeren and Ingrid Mulder

Usability Evaluation in Modern Development Processes

1. Use of Abstraction during User Interface Development
   Ebba Hvannberg
2. A Measurement-Based for Adopting Usability Engineering Methods and Tools
   Eduard Metzker and Ahmed Seffah
3. Towards a Usability Evaluation Process for Model-Driven Web Development
   Adrian Fernandez, Emilio Insfran and Silvia Abrahão
4. Playability as Extension of Quality in Use in Video Games
   José González, Francisco Montero, Natalia Zea and Francisco Gutiérrez Vela
5. Designing, Developing, Evaluating the Invisible? - Usability Evaluation and Software Development in Ubiquitous Computing
   Tom Gross

Usability Studies

1. Bringing Usability Evaluation into Practice: Field Studies in Two Software Organization
   Jakob O. Bak, Kim Nguyen, Peter Risgaard and Jan Stage
2. Is Usability Getting Unpopular?
   Marta Larusdottir, Olof Haraldsdottir and Brigt Mikkelsen
3. Early User-testing Before Programming Improves Software Quality
   John Sören Pettersson and Jenny Nilsson