A User-Centered Approach to User-Building Interactions

A User-Centered Approach to Object-Oriented User Interface Design

This chapter emphasizes user-centered design as the essential process for developing usable systems. User-centered design tries to strengthen the creative aspects of user interface design. However, this does not fit very well with the more structured, architecture-centered nature of object-oriented development methodologies. Several problems associated with object-oriented techniques have been ...

A User Centered Approach to Requirements Modeling

The paper argues that the conventional methods for object oriented analysis and conceptual modeling suffer from lacks in requirements elicitation and validation by the end-user. Therefore, an intermediate level called ‘conceptual predesign’ is introduced between natural language requirements specification and conceptual design. The paper introduces the basic notions of a conceptual predesign mo...

A User-Centered Approach to Affective Interaction

We have built eMoto, a mobile service for sending and receiving affective messages, with the explicit aim of addressing the inner experience of emotions. eMoto is a designed artifact that carries emotional experiences only achieved through interaction. Following on the theories of embodiment, we argue emotional experiences can not be design in only design for. eMoto is the result of a user-cent...

Case study: Redesigning a Kansei Engineering Designed Scissors by User Centered Design Approach

This paper is based on the research which was conducted earlier on Kansei Engineering (KE) and resulted in a new concept for scissors to redesign it with another method called “User Centered Design” (UCD). This is a shift from translation of the consumers’ psychological feeling about a product related to their perception of the design (KE) to focus on designing for and involving users in the de...

User-Centered Approach to Visualizing Web Pages