Usability and Software Architecture: The Forgotten Problems

January 26, 2007 lecture by Bonnie John for the Stanford University Human Computer Interaction Seminar (CS 547). Bonnie has teamed up with Len Bass to bring usability to the architecture design table as a "first-class citizen" on par with other quality attributes like performance, security, and modifiability; she presents their research, proposed solution, and empirical results supporting the efficacy of that solution.

CS 547 | Human-Computer Interaction Seminar:
http://hci.stanford.edu/seminar/

Stanford HCI Group:
http://hci.stanford.edu/

Stanford Center for Professional Development:
http://scpd.stanford.edu/

Stanford University Channel on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/stanforduniversity/

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• Computer
• science
• software
• engineering
• programming
• design
• application
• architecture
• Bonnie
• John
• usability
• research

[frederikcreemers]

never put that much text on your slides, it makes them less usable.

[grunder20]

This is more on computer architecture.

[agapitoflores001]

At least they were reminded of the forgotten problem. haha

[jy80088]

..the last phrase I remembered was "..there are many definitions of work" before my forehead made contact with my keyboard.

[ToshiroDK]

@smallgiant2005 They are leet haxors...

[Roelandvinken]

THat whole HCI/Usability field really lacks substance.

[JapaneseLearningVid]

More like this please. More on what a "USAP" is would be good. A few example USAPs maybe.

As far as I can make out USAP should:

1) Prioritize items that are difficult to implement after the design has been created.

2) List user benefits

3) possible designs of a solution

4) use case/scenario

[smallgiant2005]

how is it possible for standford university to post a more than 1 hour clip on youtube while others are limited to 10 minutes?

[Metophile]

Why? And yes I did.

[aleafinwatera]

makes me wonder if you watched the whole thing...

:p