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26 Feb 2009

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Datum: 	Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:52:31 +0100
Von: 	Silvia Abrahão sabrahao@dsic.upv.es
Antwort an: 	Silvia Abrahão sabrahao@dsic.upv.es
An: 	AISWORLD Information Systems World Network isworld@lyris.isworld.org
C A L L   F O R   A R T I C L E S
Journal of Systems and Software Special Issue on
Interplay between Usability Evaluation and Software Development
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              *     Submission deadline: June 15, 2009     *
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Software development is highly challenging. Despite many significant
successes, several software development projects fail completely or
produce software with serious limitations, including (1) lack of
usefulness, i.e., the system does not adequately support the core tasks
of the user, (2) unsuitable designs of user interactions and interfaces,
(3) lack of productivity gains or even reduced productivity despite
heavy investments in information technology.
Broadly speaking, two approaches have been taken to address these
limitations. The first approach is to employ evaluation activities in a
software development project in order to determine and improve the
usability of the software, i.e., the effectiveness, efficiency and
satisfaction with which users achieve their goals. To help software
developers’ work with usability within this approach, more than 20 years
of research in Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) has created and compared
techniques for evaluating usability. The second approach is based on the
significant advances in techniques and methodologies for user interface
design that have been achieved in the last decades (e.g., participatory
design and user-centered design).
However, the Software Engineering (SE) community has recognized that
usability does not only affect the design of user interfaces but the
software system development as a whole. In particular, efforts are
focused on explaining the implications of usability for requirements
gathering, software architecture design, and the selection of software
components.
The interplay between these two fields, and between the activities they
advocate to be undertaken in software development, have been limited.
Integrating usability evaluation at relevant points in software
development with successful and to-the-point results has proved
difficult. Research inSE and HCI has been done mainly independently of
each other with no in substantial exchange of results and sparse efforts
to combine the techniques of the two approaches. As a result, the state
of industry practice is unfortunately still quite immature and even in
some cases the basic principles and currently available usability
evaluation methods are not understood.
On the other hand, some major advances, including new methods and
strategies, have recently been made in the SE & HCI fields that might be
of interest to practitioners.
Our aim as guest editors of this special issue is to offer Journal of
Systems and Software readers information that helps them integrating
usability evaluation at relevant points in software development. For
that reason, on one hand, papers that cover in a practical way basic
evaluation principles that help organizations with possibly weak
evaluation approaches to incorporate some of the well known
usability evaluation methods and/or strategies will be welcomed, as well
as papers that provide some light about the new trends on the interplay
between usability evaluation and software development, so more
sophisticated organizations could take some advantage of them. According
to that aim, some issues that might be of interest to readers are:
- Lessons learned and recommendations on the interplay between usability
evaluation and software development
- Empirical studies of usability evaluation methods applied to software
development activities
- Comparisons of usability evaluation methods
- Effectiveness of usability evaluation methods on providing feedback to
design activities
- Usefulness of software development artifacts as the basis for
usability evaluations
- Practical issues about new trends of usability evaluation in software
development
- Influence of specific artifacts obtained during software development
on usability evaluation techniques selection
- Effectiveness of usability evaluation methods in emerging techniques
for User Interface design
- Best practices for particular domains (web-based systems, agile
projects, model-driven development, small/fast track projects, etc.)
SUBMISSIONS OF PAPERS
All manuscripts and any supplementary material should be submitted via
the online submission and peer review systems at:
http://ees.elsevier.com/jss.
Follow the submission instructions given on this site. Please select the
article type as “Special Issue: Usability in SD”. All manuscripts should
comply with the journal’s Guide for Authors. Please refer to the
following site:
http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/505732/authorin....
The manuscripts submitted for the Special Issue of the Journal of
Systems and Software should be significant extensions of the papers
presented at the First International Workshop on the Interplay between
usability Evaluation and Software Development (I-USED 2008); as far as
size is concerned, all workshop papers need to be extended by at least
30 percent. In addition, authors that have not participated in this
workshop are also encouraged to submit their papers.
The Journal of Systems and Software seeks to bridge theory and practice.
Thus, both theoretical and practical articles are welcome. However,
theoretical articles must include some empirical evaluation, practical
demonstration, or substantive discussion of the practical application of
the proposed idea. All articles selected for publication will be
reviewed by at least three reviewers knowledgeable in the topic. For
acceptance, at least two reviewers must recommend eventual publication.
IMPORTANT DATES
June 15, 2009:        Submission deadline
September 25, 2009:   Notification of decisions in the first round of
reviews
November 6, 2009:     Revision due in the first round of reviews
December 4, 2009:     Revision due in the second round of reviews
December 11, 2009:    Final notification of decisions
March of 2010:        Expected publication date (subject to JSS
editorial calendar)
GUEST EDITORS
Silvia Abrahão
Universidad Politécnica de Valencia, Spain
sabrahao@dsic.upv.es
Kasper Hornbæk
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
kash@diku.dk
Natalia Juristo
Universidad Politécnica de Madrid, Spain
natalia@fi.upm.es
Effie L-C Law
ETH Zürich, Switzerland and
University of Leicester, UK
law@tik.ee.ethz.ch
Jan Stage
Aalborg University, Denmark
jans@cs.aau.dk
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 Silvia Abrahão
 Departamento de Sistemas Informáticos y Computación (DSIC)
 Universidad Politécnica de Valencia (UPV)
 Camino de Vera s/n - 46022 Valencia, España

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