Research on development of environments for usability requirements definitions and evaluations of UIs in requirements definition phase

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26330090
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: Software
• Research Institution: Tokyo Woman's Christian University
• Principal Investigator: Shirogane Junko 東京女子大学, 現代教養学部, 准教授 (00329161)
• Research Collaborator: Pastor Oscar Universidad Politecnica de Valencia, Centro de Investigación en Mètodos de Producción de Software, Professor ; Panach Jose Ignacio Universitat de Valencia, Escola Tècnica Superior d' Enginyeria, Departament d' Informàtica, Professor
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: ユーザインタフェース / 使用性 / 要求 / ドキュメント

Outline of Final Research Achievements

To improve usability of user interfaces, I proposed a method to define usability requirements in requirements definition phase, generate user interfaces from the described documents, evaluate the generated user interfaces by users, and improve the documents based on the evaluation results. This method includes strategies to evaluate documents that are not evaluated and improved using the documents that are already evaluated and improved. This research enables to define and evaluate usability of user interfaces in requirements analysis phase of software development, and as the results, this research contributes reduction of development costs and burdens.

Free Research Field

ソフトウェア工学