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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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Main Authors: Hussein, Idyawati, Mahmud, Murni, Md Tap, Abu Osman
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: IEEE 2014
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T Technology (General)
Online Access:http://irep.iium.edu.my/50731/1/50731.pdf
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spelling my.iium.irep.507312016-07-20T09:12:51Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/50731/ A survey of user experience practice: A point of meet between academic and industry Hussein, Idyawati Mahmud, Murni Md Tap, Abu Osman T Technology (General) 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. IEEE 2014 Conference or Workshop Item REM application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/50731/1/50731.pdf Hussein, Idyawati and Mahmud, Murni and Md Tap, Abu Osman (2014) A survey of user experience practice: A point of meet between academic and industry. In: 2014 3rd International Conference on User Science and Engineering (i-USEr), 2nd-5th September 2014 , Shah Alam. http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpls/abs_all.jsp?arnumber=7002678&tag=1 10.1109/IUSER.2014.7002678
institution Universiti Islam Antarabangsa Malaysia
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Hussein, Idyawati
Mahmud, Murni
Md Tap, Abu Osman
A survey of user experience practice: A point of meet between academic and industry
description 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.
format Conference or Workshop Item
author Hussein, Idyawati
Mahmud, Murni
Md Tap, Abu Osman
author_facet Hussein, Idyawati
Mahmud, Murni
Md Tap, Abu Osman
author_sort Hussein, Idyawati
title A survey of user experience practice: A point of meet between academic and industry
title_short A survey of user experience practice: A point of meet between academic and industry
title_full A survey of user experience practice: A point of meet between academic and industry
title_fullStr A survey of user experience practice: A point of meet between academic and industry
title_full_unstemmed A survey of user experience practice: A point of meet between academic and industry
title_sort survey of user experience practice: a point of meet between academic and industry
publisher IEEE
publishDate 2014
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/50731/1/50731.pdf
http://irep.iium.edu.my/50731/
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