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Frick, Theodore; Boling, Elizabeth; Kim, Kyong-Jee; Oswald, Daniel; Zazelenchuk, Todd – 2001
The concepts of usability and user-centered design (UCD) have grown in popularity over the past 20 years as measured by the number of research and mainstream articles devoted to their discussion. As with all new developments, however, there are always the questions of how things work in practice compared to theory. A survey of 83 software…
Descriptors: Computer Software, Computer Software Development, Computer System Design, Corporations
Boling, Elizabeth; Ma, Guoping; Tao, Chia-Wen; Askun, Cengiz; Green, Tim; Frick, Theodore; Schaumburg, Heike – 1999
Users of content-based software programs, including hypertexts and instructional multimedia, rely on the navigation functions provided by the designers of those program. Typical navigation schemes use abstract symbols (arrows) to label basic navigational functions like moving forward or backward through screen displays. In a previous study, the…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Computer Graphics, Computer Interfaces, Computer Software Development