UPi - a software development process aiming at usability, productivity and integration

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2005

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This dissertation proposes the Unified Process for Interactive Systems, called UPi, which integrates practices from Software Engineering (SE) and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) with three main goals: usability, productivity, and integration. First, we intend to help professionals from both areas in developing interactive systems with usability through the application of a unified process. Second, we want to make HCI an essential and effective part of SE processes by facilitating the communication and interchange of artifacts between professionals from these two areas, thus, bringing productivity to a new working environment. Third, we aim at describing the basis for generating User Interfaces (UI) through the integration of HCI and SE concepts in a unified process and through the active participation of users. In order to address the issues mentioned previously, we have defined and evaluated the UPi and specified one artifact, the UI Definition Plan. To evaluate its efficacy, we applied UPi in the Brazilian Digital TV Project, financed by the Brazilian Government. UPi was also evaluated according to specific metrics to measure its Return on Investment and to monitor its application and continuously improve it. The UI Definition Plan is an innovation for the selection of usability patterns during UI design. UPi, the strategy to monitor its application and evaluate the ROI, and the UI Definition Plan are our contributions for the SE and HCI communities.

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software - dissertaÇÕes interface homem-mÁquina - dissertaÇÕes sistemas de informacao

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