Proceedings on Interplay between Usability Evaluation and User Interface Design go Online

Details of the NordiCHI 2004 workshop on the improving the interplay between usability evaluation and user interface design are now available online.

The goal of the workshop was to determine the state-of-the-art in the interplay between usability evaluation and interface design and to generate ideas for new and improved relations between these activities. Both the discussion of state-of-the-art and the new relations were based on empirical studies.

Within this focus, topics of discussion included:
(1) Which products of interface design are useful as the basis for usability evaluations? (2) How do the specific products from interface design influence the techniques that are relevant for the usability evaluation?
(3) In which form are the results of usability evaluations supplied back into interface design? (4) Which usability evaluation results are needed in interface design? (
5) How can usability evaluation be integrated more directly in interface design?
(6) How can usability evaluation methods be applied in emerging techniques for interface design?

The webpage below links to ten papers from the workshop, as well as an introduction to the proceedings that summarises the questions discussed and the main conclusions.

Associated Link: Proceedings

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