Universal Usability : Past, Present, and Future (Foundations and Trends® in Human-computer Interaction)

Meiselwitz, Gabriele/ Wentz, Brian/ Lazar, Jonathan

now publishers Inc（2010/08発売）

• 製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 138 p.
• 言語 ENG
• 商品コード 9781601983763
• DDC分類 004.019

Full Description

Computers are used all over the world in a variety of contexts by users with all levels of technical experience. This includes users such as kindergarteners, older users, people with various impairments, people who are busy doing other tasks (such as driving a car), and users with differing levels of education, literacy, and socio-economic means. The concept of computer interfaces that will be easy to use, for all of these users, in all of these different situations, is known as universal usability.

Making progress towards this goal requires innovations in techniques for gathering and understanding requirements; designing and developing interfaces; evaluation and assessment; standards practices; and public policy, and much work in this field remains to be done. This survey presents an overview of universal usability as it currently exists in the human-computer interaction literature, and presents some future directions for work in universal usability.

Contents

1: Introduction 2: History of UU 3: Technology Diversity 4: User Diversity 5: Bridging Gaps in User Knowledge 6: Context-aware Computing and Contextual Design 7: Tools and Frameworks for Universal Usability 8: Design Processes for Universal Usability 9: Standardizations and Guidelines for Universal Usability 10: Public Policy and Universal Usability 11: Cost-Justifying Universal Usability 12: Security/Privacy and Universal Usability 13: Summary and Future Directions in Universal Usability. References