Maria-Isabel Sanchez-Segura

TL;DR: This work proposes an approach based on developing specific guidelines that capitalize upon key elements recurrently intervening in the usability features elicitation and specification process that provides requirements analysts with a knowledge repository.

TL;DR: What implications usability has for software development is analyzed, paying special attention to the impact of this quality attribute on design, and a possible quantification, calculated from a number of real applications, of the effect of incorporating certain usability features at design time.

TL;DR: This study conducts a study to help both academia and the software industry form a picture of the relationship between the competences of recent graduates of undergraduate and graduate software engineering programmes and the tasks that these professionals are to perform as part of their jobs in industry.

TL;DR: A set of usability guidelines for software development is defined to help software engineers incorporate particular usability features into their applications and preliminary validation shows that the use of the guidelines reduces development time, improves the quality of the resulting designs, and significantly decreases the perceived complexity of the usability features from the developers' perspective.

TL;DR: Usability-supporting architectural patterns as discussed by the authors describe a usability concern that is not supported by separation alone and provide the forces from the characteristics of the task and environment, the human and the state of the software to motivate an implementation independent solution cast in terms of the responsibilities that must be fulfilled to satisfy the forces.