Fifth Workshop on Software and Usability Engineering Cross-Pollination: Patterns, Usability and User Experience, Lisbon, Portugal
Software and usability engineering can be mutually influenced by a process called 'cross-pollination'. This results when something is invented in one field and later adapted to suit a new context. Examples include task specifications, design patterns and life cycle models.
New developments in intelligent and adaptive environments and mobile computing require new solutions, especially for usability evaluation methods. The key attribute of user interfaces is that they need to adapt to time, location and usage which makes them very difficult to evaluate using standard techniques. It could be that cross-pollination can help.
The workshop will be a forum for sharing ideas about potential and innovative ways to cross-pollinate the expertise among the different communities and to show examples which can stimulate industrial software development. The event will particularly focus on how to integrate and extend traditional development and evaluation methods in order to produce interfaces that are usable and ensure a good user experience.For further information, please visit: http://wwwswt.informatik.uni-rostock.de/PUX2011/(opens in new window)