Entertainment Computing – ICEC 2020
19th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2020, **'an, China, November 10–13, 2020, Proceedings
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The commercial use of the Internet for service provision has deeply changed the environment where human-computer interaction takes place. Web interfaces are now integrated in overall service provision, and are...
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This paper describes a new unifying workstyle model for the user-centered design process, comprised of eight dimensions that we claim as fundamental to supporting the UCD process. Our proposal is new because i...
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Existing software modeling tools are widely recognized to be hard to use and, hence, to adopt. We believe those usability problems are related to a legacy of formalism-centric tools that don’t promote the new ...
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In this paper, we argue that current user interface modeling tools are developed using a formalism-centric approach that does not support the needs of modern software development. In order to solve this proble...
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This chapter presents two important issues integrating software and usability engineering. The first issue is use case driven development, we discuss the importance of describing use cases through technology-f...
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Designers aspire to create engaging and desirable experiences. To that end they study users, aiming to better understand their preferences, ways of thinking and desired outcomes. In the service sector this tas...
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For the last couple of decades the world has been witnessing a change in habits of energy consumption in domestic environments, with electricity emerging as the main source of energy consumed. The effects of t...
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19th IFIP TC 14 International Conference, ICEC 2020, **'an, China, November 10–13, 2020, Proceedings