
Universal Usability
Past, Present, and Future
now publishers Inc
1st Edition
Published on 11. August 2010
Book
Paperback/Softback
138 pages
978-1-60198-376-3 (ISBN)
Description
Computers are used all over the world in a variety of contexts by users with all levels of technical experience. This includes users such as kindergarteners, older users, people with various impairments, people who are busy doing other tasks (such as driving a car), and users with differing levels of education, literacy, and socio-economic means. The concept of computer interfaces that will be easy to use, for all of these users, in all of these different situations, is known as universal usability. Making progress towards this goal requires innovations in techniques for gathering and understanding requirements; designing and developing interfaces; evaluation and assessment; standards practices; and public policy, and much work in this field remains to be done. This survey presents an overview of universal usability as it currently exists in the human-computer interaction literature, and presents some future directions for work in universal usability.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Hanover
United States
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 8 mm
Weight
205 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-60198-376-3 (9781601983763)
DOI
10.1561/1100000029
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Content
1: Introduction 2: History of UU 3: Technology Diversity 4: User Diversity 5: Bridging Gaps in User Knowledge 6: Context-aware Computing and Contextual Design 7: Tools and Frameworks for Universal Usability 8: Design Processes for Universal Usability 9: Standardizations and Guidelines for Universal Usability 10: Public Policy and Universal Usability 11: Cost-Justifying Universal Usability 12: Security/Privacy and Universal Usability 13: Summary and Future Directions in Universal Usability. References