We investigate the trade off between investing effort in improving the features of a research environment that increases productivity and investing such effort in actually conduct...
Juan C. Quiroz, Anil Shankar, Sergiu M. Dascalu, S...
As computers become increasingly integral to daily life there is a need for computer scientists to focus on the user. This, in part, entails developing applications that have inte...
Gregory Smith, Laurian C. Vega, D. Scott McCrickar...
This case study examines a procurement project where the Swedish National Labor Market Administration (AMV) hired usability consultants in order to redesign their website for empl...
Although graphical user interfaces (GUIs) constitute a large part of the software being developed today and are typically created using rapid prototyping, there are no effective r...
We present an experiment that compares how people perform search tasks in a degree-of-interest browser and in a Windows-Explorer-like browser. Our results show that, whereas users...