Agile User-Centered Design Applied to a Mobile Multimedia Streaming Application

  • Authors:
  • Zahid Hussain;Martin Lechner;Harald Milchrahm;Sara Shahzad;Wolfgang Slany;Martin Umgeher;Peter Wolkerstorfer

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute for Software Technology, Technical University Graz, Austria;Institute for Software Technology, Technical University Graz, Austria;Institute for Software Technology, Technical University Graz, Austria;Institute for Software Technology, Technical University Graz, Austria;Institute for Software Technology, Technical University Graz, Austria;Institute for Software Technology, Technical University Graz, Austria;CURE - Center for Usability Research & Engineering, Austria

  • Venue:
  • USAB '08 Proceedings of the 4th Symposium of the Workgroup Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering of the Austrian Computer Society on HCI and Usability for Education and Work
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

Mobile computing is leading a revolution. Multimedia consumption on mobile devices is increasing day by day. The most important factor for the success of such applications is user acceptance. Additionally, the success of a software development project is associated not only with tools and technologies but also depends on how much the development process is both user-centered and developer-oriented. We are working on a project to develop a multimedia streaming application for mobile phones. The paper describes our adopted development process: the integration of Extreme Programming (XP) --- one of the popular agile methods --- with User-Centered Design (UCD) and shows how the integrated process facilitates user-orientation and at the same time preserves the social values of the development team. The paper also presents a summary of a recently carried out usability study.