Transferring usability engineering to software houses: some practical experiences

  • Authors:

  • Marcin Sikorski

  • Affiliations:

  • Technical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland

  • Venue:
  • CHI EA '97 CHI '97 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 1997

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Abstract

This paper describes market-related and social background of existing limitations in transferring usability engineering methods into software companies in Poland. Typical approaches of software vendors, developers, managers and users are shortly presented as possible reasons of low usability of many local software products. Providing information, guidelines and usability services are discussed as means for developing usability consciousness among all stakeholders involved in developing software for management support.