DocumentCode
2004265
Title
Early-stage software design for usability
Author
Golden, Elspeth
Author_Institution
Human-Comput. Interaction Inst., Carnegie Mellon Univ., Pittsburgh, PA
fYear
2009
fDate
16-24 May 2009
Firstpage
363
Lastpage
366
Abstract
In this proposal, the author presents work to construct and evaluate a successful approach to explicitly drawing and communicating the connection between usability concerns and software architecture design. This approach for early-stage software design for usability is usability-supporting architecture patterns and their application and design framework, architecture pattern language for usability support (A-PLUS). The proposal will describe an iterative process of testing and revising USAPs to improve their usability and utility as a performance aid for software engineers designing software architectures to support usability concerns.
Keywords
software architecture; software reusability; A-PLUS; architecture pattern language for usability support; software architecture design; software usability; usability-supporting architecture pattern; Design engineering; Guidelines; Packaging; Programming; Software architecture; Software design; Software quality; Software systems; Usability; User interfaces;
fLanguage
English
Publisher
ieee
Conference_Titel
Software Engineering - Companion Volume, 2009. ICSE-Companion 2009. 31st International Conference on
Conference_Location
Vancouver, BC
Print_ISBN
978-1-4244-3495-4
Type
conf
DOI
10.1109/ICSE-COMPANION.2009.5071022
Filename
5071022
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