Mapping the expanding landscape of usability: the case of distributed education

  • Authors:
  • Roger Grice;Bill Hart-Davidson

  • Affiliations:
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute;Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

  • Venue:
  • ACM Journal of Computer Documentation (JCD)
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

As the environments in which we use technology become more complex and more diverse, we need to extend and expand our notion of usability to include a broad spectrum of users and user activities. We take as an example the case of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute's distributed education program for human-computer interaction (HCI). While HCI is the subject matter for the courses, the courses themselves present a challenging case study in HCI usability.