A survey of user experience practice: A point of meet between academic and industry
This paper reports a questionnaire survey which is conducted at the iUser Conference in 2011. The iUser 2011 conference is expected to be the platform to discover the usability and user experience design practitioners from both academic and industry settings in Malaysia. A survey is adopted from...
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| Format: | Conference or Workshop Item |
| Language: | English |
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IEEE
2014
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| Online Access: | http://irep.iium.edu.my/50731/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/50731/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/50731/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/50731/1/50731.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper reports a questionnaire survey which is
conducted at the iUser Conference in 2011. The iUser 2011
conference is expected to be the platform to discover the usability
and user experience design practitioners from both academic and
industry settings in Malaysia. A survey is adopted from the
literature that attempted to assess the practice of user-centered
design among Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) practitioners.
The results reveal a contrary findings to the characteristics of
attendees of HCI-focused conference in other countries. While
the practice of user experience has gained more attention,
usability issues is still at its infancy. The attendees were new to
the terminologies and still learning on the fundamental of
usability and user experience. The results show that the
conference participants were unable to represent the HCI
practitioners in the local settings. Consequently, in order to study the practice of user experience, researchers need to locate the
right HCI practitioners who qualified to be classified as the
community of practice who shared the same values towards
embedding the user experience techniques in the existing
technology development process. |
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