Human-Centered Software Engineering

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XXIX

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2. Human-Centered Software Engineering: Software Engineering Architectures, Patterns, and Models for Human Computer Interaction

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Human-Centered Software Engineering: Software Engineering Architectures, Patterns, and Sodels for Human Computer Interaction

      • Ahmed Seffah, Jean Vanderdonckt, Michel C. Desmarais

      Pages 1-6

3. User Experiences, Usability Requirements, and Design

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 8-8

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   2. What Drives Software Development: Bridging the Gap Between Software and Usability Engineering

      • Nuno J. Nunes

      Pages 9-25

   3. Human Activity Modeling: Toward A Pragmatic Integration of Activity Theory and Usage-Centered Design

      • Larry L. Constantine

      Pages 27-51

   4. A User-Centered Framework for Deriving A Conceptual Design From User Experiences: Leveraging Personas and Patterns to Create Usable Designs

      • Homa Javahery, Alexander Deichman, Ahmed Seffah, Mohamed Taleb

      Pages 53-81

   5. XML-Based Tools for Creating, Mapping, and Transforming Usability Engineering Requirements

      • Fei Huang, Jon Titus, Allan Wolinski, Kevin Schneider, Jim A. Carter

      Pages 83-104

4. Modeling and Model-Driven Engineering

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 106-106

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   2. Multipath Transformational Development of User Interfaces with Graph Transformations

      • Quentin Limbourg, Jean Vanderdonckt

      Pages 107-138

   3. Human-Centered Engineering Of Interactive Systems With The User Interface Markup Language

      • James Helms, Robbie Schaefer, Kris Luyten, Jo Vermeulen, Marc Abrams, Adrien Coyette et al.

      Pages 139-171

   4. Megamodeling and Metamodel-Driven Engineering for Plastic User Interfaces: MEGA-UI

      • Jean-Sébastien Sottet, Gaelle Calvary, Jean-Marie Favre, Jöelle Coutaz

      Pages 173-200

   5. Cause and Effect in User Interface Development

      • Ebba Thora Hvannberg

      Pages 201-222

5. Interactive Systems Architectures

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 224-224

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   2. From User Interface Usability to the Overall Usability of Interactive Systems: Adding Usability in System Architecture

      • Mohamed Taleb, Ahmed Seffah, Daniel Engleberg

      Pages 225-243

   3. Toward a Refined Paradigm for Architecting Usable Systems

      • Tamer Rafla, Michel C. Desmarais, Pierre N. Robillard

      Pages 245-255

   4. Trace-Based Usability Evaluation Using Aspect-Oriented Programming and Agent-Based Software Architecture

      • Jean-Claude Tarby, Houcine Ezzedine, Christophe Kolski

      Pages 257-276

   5. Achieving Usability of Adaptable Software: The Amf-Based Approach

      • Franck Tarpin-Bernard, Kinan Samaan, Bertrand David

      Pages 277-297

6. Reengineering, Reverse Engineering, and Refactoring

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 299-299

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   2. The Gains Design Process: How to do Structured Design of User Interfaces in Any Software Environment

      • Martha J. Lindeman

      Pages 301-315

Activity theory is a way of describing and characterizing the structure of human - tivity of all kinds. First introduced by Russian psychologists Rubinshtein, Leontiev, and Vigotsky in the early part of the last century, activity theory has more recently gained increasing attention among interaction designers and others in the hum- computer interaction and usability communities (see, for example, Gay and H- brooke, 2004). Interest was given a signi?cant boost when Donald Norman suggested activity-theory and activity-centered design as antidotes to some of the putative ills of “human-centered design” (Norman, 2005). Norman, who has been credited with coining the phrase “user-centered design,” suggested that too much attention focused on human users may be harmful, that to design better tools designers need to focus not so much on users as on the activities in which users are engaged and the tasks they seek to perform within those activities. Although many researchers and practitioners claim to have used or been in?uenced by activity theory in their work (see, for example, Nardi, 1996), it is often dif?cult to trace precisely where or how the results have actually been shaped by activity theory. Inmanycases, evendetailedcasestudiesreportresultsthatseemonlydistantlyrelated, if at all, to the use of activity theory. Contributing to the lack of precise and traceable impact is that activity theory, - spite its name, is not truly a formal and proper theory.

• design
• modeling
• programming
• software architecture
• software engineering
• structured design
• systems architecture

From the reviews:

"This book … is comprised of four sections and 17 chapters. The physical structure of the book is quite pleasing … . The editors have clearly thought about their chapter organization. … This publication is a testament to the importance of the convergence of software engineering and HCI. … this is a call to practitioners to take a larger role in creating better solutions, through a more ‘whole brain’ approach to a refined and sophisticated development model." (Brian D. Goodman, ACM Computing Reviews, October, 2009)

• Concordia University, Montreal, Canada

  Ahmed Seffah

• Université catholique de Louvain, Belgium

  Jean Vanderdonckt

• Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal, Canada

  Michel C. Desmarais

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