Monthly Archives: March 2011
Bangor et al. (2008) An Empirical Evaluation of the System Usability Scale
Bangor et al. provide a nice description of System Usability Scale (SUS). Their article is based on almost 10 year’s worth of SUS data (more than 200 SUS studies). SUS is an interesting tool. It provides a reference score for … Continue reading
Hertzum, M. (2010) Images of Usability
Abstract: The term usability is ubiquitous in human–computer interaction, so much so that it is commonly used without definition. Rather than one established meaning of usability, there are, however, multiple images of usability. Although each image provides a partial view, … Continue reading
Andierssen, J.H.E. (2003) Working with Groupware: Understanding and Evaluating Collaboration Technology
Andierssen’s book is a compact yet comprehensive introduction to collaboration technologies and especially on thinking and evaluating their quality from the users’ perspective. In just 150 pages the book covers implications and roles of collaboration technology in work and society, … Continue reading
Ehn, P. & Kyng, M. (1991) Cardboard Computers: Mocking-it-up or Hands-on the Future
Ehn and Kyng are pioneers of participatory design. Article “Cardboard Computers” is a HCI classic. The article describes a project where newspaper professionals (maker-ups) initialized a project to look for alternative solutions for existing computer page makeup solutions. The computer … Continue reading
HCI & UCD reader recommends and comments
This is a Strategic Usability Research Group’s blog where researchers and students can share their views about HCI and UCD books and articles. Posted by Petri
