Current state of agile user-centered design: A survey

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5889 LNCS, Issue , 2009, Pages 416-427

  Hussain, Zahid ^a   Slany, Wolfgang ^a   Holzinger, Andreas ^b  

^a GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b GRAZ UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Agile methods; Extreme programming; Scrum; Survey; Usability; User centered design

Indexed keywords

AGILE METHODS; EXTREME PROGRAMMING; SCRUM; USABILITY; USER CENTERED DESIGNS;

DESIGN; HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; SOFTWARE DESIGN; SURVEYS;

USABILITY ENGINEERING;

EID: 78649921761     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-642-10308-7_30     Document Type: Conference Paper

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