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Towards a Usability Coaching Method for Institutionalizing Usability in Organisations

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Abstract

The ideas related to user centred systems design are difficult to implement in organisations and usability is given low priority in in-house systems development. This problem is multifaceted and complex and needs to be addressed with a method capable of adapting to situations, people and context. In this paper we outline a new method – usability coaching – that has the capability for dealing with the situated problems of introducing user centred systems development in an organisations. The method is the results of a larger action research case study in which 9 individuals in an organization received usability coaching. Our study indicates that the coaching program made coachees work more actively with usability activities; hence the coaching program had a substantial effect on their actions and contributed to the organizational change.

Keywords

  • Coaching
  • user centred-systems design
  • organizational change
  • usability
  • action research
  • qualitative research
  • learning theories
  • conceptual change
  • and threshold concept

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  1. Dept. Of IT/HCI, Uppsala university, PO Box 337, 75105, Uppsala, Sweden

    Åsa Cajander

  2. KTH (Royal Institute of Technology), 100 44, Stockholm, Sweden

    Elina Eriksson & Jan Gulliksen

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  1. Department of computer Science, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 21, 18051, Rostock, Germany

    Peter Forbrig

  2. ISTI-CNR, Via G.Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Fabio Paternó

  3. RisøNational Laboratory, Centre for Cognitive Systems Engineering (CSE), 4000, Roskilde, Denmark

    Annelise Mark Pejtersen

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Cajander, Å., Eriksson, E., Gulliksen, J. (2010). Towards a Usability Coaching Method for Institutionalizing Usability in Organisations. In: Forbrig, P., Paternó, F., Mark Pejtersen, A. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. HCIS 2010. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology, vol 332. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-15231-3_10

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