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Usability: Designing for the customers

• Lecturer
  

  Dipl. Ing. Gerda Richter
  Siemens PSE, Vienna

• Date & place
  

  Thursday, December 1, 2005
  14:00 - 18:00
  B204

• Outline
  • What is Usability? Definition
  • What do we need it for? Motivation
  • What are the main topics? User-centered analysis and design, requirements engineering
  • How do we ensure it? Tools and methods
• Recommended literature
  • Nielsen, Jakob: "Usability Engineering", AP Professional, Boston, 1993
  • Shneiderman, Ben: "Leonardo's Laptop. Human needs and the new computing technologies", The MIT Press, Cambridge, 2002
• Slides