Roadmaps for Usability Engineering
Sanjeev Narayan Bal · International journal of advanced research in computer science and electronics engineering · 2012
Usability engineering is a cost-effective, user centered process that ensures a high level of effectiveness, efficiency, and safety in complex interactive systems. A major challenge, and thus opportunity, in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) and specifically usability engineering (UE) is designing effective user interfaces for emerging technologies that have no established design guidelines or interaction metaphors, or introduce completely new ways for users to perceive and interact with technology and the world around them. This paper presents a brief description of usability engineering activities, and discusses our experiences with leading usability engineering activities for different applications. we propose a usability engineering approach that employs user-based studies to inform design, by iteratively inserting a series of user-based studies into a traditional usability engineering lifecycle to better inform initial user interface designs. We will discuss interaction, visualization, and adaptive user support for maps on mobile devices. we propose an entangled User Centered System Design (UCSD) and Feature Driven Development (FDD) process for MCI ,where a usability engineering model is used.