Usability concerns are often difficult to integrate into real-world software development
processes. To remedy this situation, IBM research and development, partnering with …

Usage data logged from user interactions can be extremely valuable for evaluating software
usability. However, instrumenting software to collect usage data is a time-intensive task that …

Usability evaluations provide software development teams with insights on the degree to
which software applications enable users to achieve their goals, how fast these goals can be …

The hypothesis of this research is that usability relates to the physical effort that is required in
order to use software in the accomplishment of interactive tasks. Implications of this …

Usability evaluations generate large amounts of poorly structured qualitative data, but
traditional methods of analysis are often impractical for use by industry practitioners. To …

Biographical Sketch: Following graduation from New Mexico State University with a
Bachelor of Science in Computer Science, Rosemary Marchetti began her career at IBM's …

Usability engineering methods for software developers Page 1 COMMUNICATIONS OF THE
ACM January 2005/Vol. 48, No. 1 71 Usability is most often defined as the ease of use and …

Over the past two decades, the HCI community has proposed specific features that software
applications should include to overcome some of the most common usability problems …

In this paper we present the results of a study which aims to explore the perspective of
novice software developers about usability evaluation. It is important for a software …

This panel brings together usability professionals throughout the computer industry to
demonstrate and discuss their usability lab software tools. These tools are specifically …