W7 Improving the Interplay between Usability Evaluation and User Interface Design

Kasper Hornbæk, Jan Stage
University of Copenhagen; Aalborg University

The goal of this workshop is to determine state-of-the-art in the interplay between usability evaluation and interface design and to generate ideas for new and improved relations between these activities. Both the discussion of state-of-the-art of and new relations between usability evaluation and user interface design will be based on empirical studies. Within this focus, topics of discussion include, but are not limited to:

(1) Which products of interface design are useful as the basis for usability evaluations?
(2) How do the specific products from interface design influence the techniques that are relevant for the usability evaluation?
(3) In which forms are the results of usability evaluations supplied back into interface design?
(4) Which usability evaluation results are needed in interface design?
(5) How can usability evaluation be integrated more directly in interface design?
(6) How can usability evaluation methods be applied in emerging techniques for interface design?  

Address of workshop Web page: www.diku.dk/~kash/nordichi2004.htm