The Usability Expert’s Fear of Agility: An Empirical Study of Global Trends and Emerging Practices

Lene Nielsen, Sabine Madsen

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    Abstract

    This paper contributes to the HCI literature on usability practice with insights about the empirical challenges and global emerging practices caused by the advent of agile software development (ASD). In the paper we report from a worldwide study involving 12 usability professionals from 12 different countries. The findings show that the usability professionals share a forced development and innovation in their practice that stem from their clients’ adoption and use of ASD methods. The ASD methods challenge the way usability testing is performed, the abilities of the usability expert, the usability deliverables, and the experts’ assumptions about the importance of validity.
    OriginalsprogEngelsk
    TitelNordiCHI '12 Proceedings of the 7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction: Making Sense Through Design
    Antal sider4
    ForlagAssociation for Computing Machinery
    Publikationsdato17 okt. 2012
    Sider261-264
    ISBN (Trykt)978-1-4503-1482-4
    DOI
    StatusUdgivet - 17 okt. 2012
    Begivenhed7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - NordiCHI 2012: Making sense through design - Copenhagen, Danmark
    Varighed: 14 okt. 201217 okt. 2012
    http://www.nordichi2012.org/

    Konference

    Konference7th Nordic Conference on Human-Computer Interaction - NordiCHI 2012
    Land/OmrådeDanmark
    ByCopenhagen
    Periode14/10/201217/10/2012
    Internetadresse

    Emneord

    • Usability testing
    • practice study
    • agile methods
    • usability professionals
    • global trends

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