Usability evaluation is essential to user-centred design; yet, evaluators who analyse the
same usability test sessions have been found to identify substantially different sets of …

Purpose–Most of the studies carried out on human factor in software development
concentrate primarily on personality traits. However, soft skills which largely help in …

While Agile methods were originally introduced for small, tightly coupled teams, leaner ways
of working are becoming a practical method to run entire enterprises. As the emphasis of …

Integrating user‐centered approaches into development processes is one of the main
challenges nowadays that derives from different objectives of software engineering (SE) and …

Usability professionals have attained a specialist role in systems-development projects. This
study analyses usability professionals' operational understanding of usability by eliciting the …

The main features of the Scrum process are intense communication between different
stakeholders, and rapid feedback based on regular delivery of working software. The …

The majority of medical device incident reports can primarily be attributed to use error.
Greater attention to human factors and usability during development of a medical device …

This paper describes and gives an overview of User Experience (UX) professionals' work
practices—their environment, practices, tools, and challenges. First, we reviewed 32 …

Background and purpose Recent research showed that physicians in Finland were highly
critical of their information technology (IT) systems. They were also critical of the methods of …

Many companies have been conducting their software development activities using Agile
methods for years; however, in many cases the management and sales processes of these …