The Muse Method for Usability Engineering
Kee Yong Lim, John B. Long · 1997
Human factors input to system development is often limited to evaluation following system implementation. Since design specifications are now ‘frozen’ and resistent to change, human factors recruitment at this stage would predispose its recommendations toward costly design modifications. Complete implementation of its design recommendations often become impossible. The human factors input is thus ‘too-little’ and ‘too-late’. One solution to the problem is to integrate structured human factors and software engineering methods. In this way, human factors inputs may be set appropriately against the system development context. To this end, a structured human factors method named MUSE (Method for USability Engineering), was developed in 1990. The objective of this tutorial is to provide participants a guided application of MUSE using design case-studies and exercises.