Human-Centered Software Engineering: Integrating Usability in the Software Development Lifecycle (Hardcover)

Introductory Chapter.- An Introduction to Human-Centered Software Engineering.- Principles, Myths and Challenges.- Key Principles for User-Centred Systems Design.- HCI, Usability and Software Engineering Integration: Present and Future.- Surveying the Solitudes: An Investigation into the Relationships between Human Computer Interaction and Software Engineering in Practice.- Convergence or Competition between Software Engineering and Human Computer Interaction.- Requirements, Scenarios, and Use-cases.- Experience with Using General Usability Scenarios on the Software Architecture of a Collaborative System.- Linking User Needs and Use Case-Driven Requirements Engineering.- Guiding Designers to the World of Usability: Determining Usability Requirements Through Teamwork.- Transforming Usability Engineering Requirements into Software Engineering Specifications: From PUF to UML.- UCD, Unified and Agile Processes.- Which, When and How Usability Techniques and Activities Should Be Integrated.- Coping with Complexity.- Towards a Model for Bridging Agile Development and User-Centered Design.- Ripple: An Event Driven Design Representation Framework for Integrating Usability and Software Engineering Life Cycles.- UCD Knowledge and UI design Patterns.- Integrating User-Centered Design Knowledge with Scenarios.- Patterns of Integration: Bringing User Centered Design into the Software Development Lifecycle.- UI Design Patterns: Bridging Use Cases and UI Design.- UI Design Patterns: From Theory to Practice.