The Assisted User-Centred Generation and Evaluation of Pervasive Interfaces

  • Authors:
  • Karin Leichtenstern;Elisabeth André

  • Affiliations:
  • Institute of Computer Science, Multimedia Concepts and Applications, Augsburg D-86159;Institute of Computer Science, Multimedia Concepts and Applications, Augsburg D-86159

  • Venue:
  • AmI '09 Proceedings of the European Conference on Ambient Intelligence
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The usability of a pervasive interface is crucial because it is a quality criterion which can determine about the success or the failure of a product. The application of the user-centred design is a possibility to reach a good design. However, this process requires combined knowledge of software and usability engineering. A lack of these skills can cause long development times and additional costs as well as badly usable interfaces. We address these problems and support interface developers with a tool-based assistance which reduces the required programming and interface design skills of the developers in order to more efficiently conduct the user-centred design. In this paper we describe this tool-based assistance for the user-centred generation and evaluation of pervasive interfaces for mobile phones as well as its evaluation.