Determining usability requirements into a call-for-tenders: a case study on the development of a healthcare system

  • Authors:
  • Timo Jokela

  • Affiliations:
  • Joticon Oy & University of Helsinki, Finland

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 6th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Extending Boundaries
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

Systems of public organizations, the development of which is acquired through public tendering, often suffer from poor usability. To resolve this issue, we explored how to determine usability requirements into a call-for-tenders. Our case is a usability-critical healthcare system to be developed for a city in Finland. We explored different options, and ended up with two measures: task completion success rate for defining effectiveness requirements, and a complementary measure that we call design solution success rate. We could not find appropriate ways for defining requirements that directly address efficiency and user satisfaction. Our case shows that the tendering context sets specific restrictions to the selection of usability measures, especially from the viewpoint of target setting and objective verification.