Refining the usability engineering toolbox: lessons learned from a user study on a visualization tool

  • Authors:
  • Homa Javahery;Ahmed Seffah

  • Affiliations:
  • Human-Centered Software Engineering Group, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University;Human-Centered Software Engineering Group, Department of Computer Science and Software Engineering, Faculty of Engineering and Computer Science, Concordia University

  • Venue:
  • USAB'07 Proceedings of the 3rd Human-computer interaction and usability engineering of the Austrian computer society conference on HCI and usability for medicine and health care
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper details a usability study on a bioinformatics visualization tool. The tool was redesigned based on a usability engineering framework called UX-P (User Experiences to Patterns) that leverages personas and patterns as primary design directives, and encourages on-going usability testing throughout the design lifecycle. The goals were to carry out a design project using the UX-P framework, to assess the usability of the resulting prototype, and to mitigate the test results into useful recommendations.