Designing Activity Diagrams Aiming at Achieving Usability in Interactive Applications: An Empirical Study

Silva, Williamson; Valentim, Natasha Malveira Costa; Conte, Tayana

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-39510-4_20

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“…To represent usability characteristics in software design artifacts, some techniques have been proposed in recent years, such as the USINN notation (USabilityoriented INteraction and Navigation model) [6], the UDRT-AD technique (Usability Design Reading Technique for Activity Diagrams) [12], and guidelines for prototyping considering usability aspects [11]. For techniques and notations like these to be better utilized in a project, it is necessary to identify and specify the usability requirements to be met by the system [7].…”

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Evolving the USARP Method to Support Usability Requirements Elicitation and Specification

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2023

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USARP (USAbility Requirements with Personas and user stories) is a method for eliciting and specifying usability requirements using personas, user stories, and usability guidelines organized as cards. USARP suggests brainstorming sessions to discuss usability requirements oriented by its cards. We conducted an exploratory study in an academic environment to analyze the use of USARP in projects developed by undergraduate students acting as software engineers. We noted difficulties in selecting cards to use during the USARP adoption. Thus, this study proposes to evolve USARP to provide a more effective way to elicit and specify usability requirements. We reviewed the cards, removing redundant content and combining cards with similar content. Also, we proposed a checklist and a board to guide the selection of the cards according to users and system characteristics. Finally, the process suggested for adopting USARP was updated to reflect the use of the new artifacts. We expect these improvements could guide the customization of the brainstorming sessions to be more effective and efficient.

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