The success of a software development project is associated not only with tools and technologies, but it also depends on how much the development process helps to be user-centered and developer-oriented. Involving customers in the process and being people-oriented, Extreme Programming (XP)– One of the popular agile methods – can be a choice for developing a usable system. The project under stud...

Agile methods have proven their worth in keeping a development team focused on producing high-quality code quickly. But these methods generally have little to say about how to incorporate user-centered design techniques. Also the question has been raised whether agile methods can scale up to larger systems design. In this paper we show how one user-centered design method, Contextual Design, for...

This paper examines the role of user-centered design (UCD) approaches to design and implementation of a mobile social software application to support student social workers in their work place. The experience of using a variant of UCD is outlined. The principles and expected norms of UCD raised a number of key lessons. It is proposed that these problems and lessons are a result of the inadequac...

Design research develops knowledge to respond to real-world challenges and solve authentic problems. In this paper, we adopt a pragmatic and semantic design approach to combine the best of two separate design discourses: the discourse about developing science-based design rules and the discourse on user-centered, participative, and experience-based design. We develop a methodology that combines...

We present a case study of an application for supporting home health care practitioners in their work. Groups of practitioners have been interviewed as well as representatives for the sales organization. Below the application is presented as well as work practices before and after the introduction of the system and perceived benefits of the system. Keywords-component; mobile IT, home health car...

Im Zuge des sich abzeichnenden digitalen Lebensstils, in dem Nutzer zunehmend zu partizipativen (Mit-)Gestaltern werden, wird die für den/die Einzelne(n) relevante Informationsmenge auch in Zukunft weiter ansteigen. Angesichts der Unübersichtlichkeit des Informationsangebots im WWW stellt sich zunehmend die Frage, wie nützliche Information gefunden und wiedergefunden werden kann. In diesem Aufs...

A brief review of muon-collider s-channel Higgs physics in the Standard Model and its minimal supersymmetric extension is presented.