Exploring Usability Needs by Human-Computer Interaction Patterns

Abstract. Covering quality aspects such as usability through the software development life cycle is challenging. These “-ilities” are generally difficult to grasp and usually lack an appropriate quantifiability, which would ease their systematic consideration. We propose a pattern-based development method supporting the identification of usability requirements and their proper specification. By taking usability principles from Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) design patterns and incorporate them into patterns for software analysis (problem frames), we obtain a new kind of patterns applicable for requirements engineering: HCIFrames. They are used for exploring usability needs of a given problem situation. 1 Motivation and Related Work Patterns for developing software have become popular for quite some time. They support reuse of development knowledge, which has proven of value, and can assist developers to build software efficiently. A common approach is using design patterns, ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2007
• Where: TAMODIA
• Authors: Markus Specker, Ina Wentzlaff
• Keywords: Design Patterns, HCI Design Patterns, TAMODIA 2007, TAMODIA 2008, Usability