Experience in remote user-centered design

  • Authors:
  • Katherine Haramundanis

  • Affiliations:
  • Hewlett-Packard Company, SWD Information Engineering, Marlboro, MA

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 26th annual ACM international conference on Design of communication
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

To meet an immediate need in a new market, the corporation needed a customer document for installing a suite of tools that had previously been installed only by experienced service engineers. More than one support engineer had written a short document describing the installation tasks, but these documents pre-supposed a high level of expertise on the part of the installer. The challenge presented to Information Engineering was to create, from two such documents, a text that a customer could use to install the software tools. With the help of a world-wide team, internet tools, and two virtual sessions following user-centered design practices, a customer-oriented document was successfully created quickly at very low cost. This paper describes the process. Documentation, Design, User-centered Design, Remote collaborative work, Design of communication, Computer-supported collaborative work