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Highlights of “Teaching Software Developers to Perform UX Tasks”

Introduction In this study, presented at the OzCHI 2015 conference, we investigated opportunities for training developers and using them as a resource in the day-to-day working practice to conduct simple usability evaluations. This study is part of a larger research project about including software developers in usability and user experience activities. The goals are to: […]

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Highlights of “Redesign Workshop: Involving Software Developers Actively in Usability Engineering”

Introduction In this paper, published at NordiCHI 2014, we present an outline of a facilitated developer-driven redesign workshop to produce graphical user interface (GUI) redesign suggestions. Additionally, we report observations and feedback from a workshop conducted in an organization with limited usability competencies. The intention of the workshop is to provide an organized frame for […]

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Highlights of “Usability Engineering in the Wild: How Do Practitioners Integrate Usability Engineering in Software Development?”

Back in 2014, I published this study together with a co-author. To make it more accessible, I have written the following summary highlighting the essential findings and implications of the study. In the paper, we presented an explorative study about how usability engineering is conducted and understood in practice. Our research question was: “How do […]

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Active Involvement of Software Developers in Usability Engineering: Two Small-Scale Case Studies

Together with co-author Jan Stage we got a short paper accepted at the conference INTERACT 2017. Abstract The essence of usability evaluations is to produce feedback that supports the downstream utility so the interaction design can be improved and problems can be fixed. In practice, software development organizations experience several obstacles for conducting usability engineering. […]

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Facilitating Redesign with Design Cards: Experiences with Novice Designers

Together with coauthors Anders Bruun and Jan Stage we got a paper accepted at OzCHI 2016, the Annual Conference of the Australian Computer-Human Interaction Special Interest Group. OzCHI 2016 is taking place in Launceston, Tasmania from November 29th – December 2nd 2016. Abstract While effort has been put into developing and evaluating usability evaluation methods less […]

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Teaching Software Developers to Perform UX Tasks

Together with my co-authors, Tina Øvad, Lars Bo Larsen, and Jan Stage, we got the paper “Teaching Software Developers to Perform UX Tasks” accepted at OzCHI 2015 taking place in Melbourne, Australia, December 7-10, 2015. This paper has been in the works for quite some time so I’m very happy that it finally found a […]

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Friendship Maintenance in the Digital Age: 
Applying a Relational Lens to Online Social Interaction

The paper “Friendship Maintenance in the Digital Age: Applying a Relational Lens to Online Social Interaction” co-authored with Irina Shklovski, Louise Barkhuus, and Joseph Kaye got accepted at the CSCW 2015 conference. Abstract HCI research has explored mobile technologies to support social activity and to support greater feelings of connectedness. Much of this has focused […]

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Redesign Workshop: Involving Software Developers Actively in Usability Engineering

Together with my co-authors Jane Billestrup, Jesper Lumbye Andersen, Jan Stage & Anders Bruun, I got a paper accepted at the Industrial Experiences track at the NordiCHI 2014 conference. Abstract In practical usability engineering feedback is only useful if it cost effectively leads to design changes. Several studies have looked into different feedback formats when passing […]

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Usability Engineering in the Wild: How do Practitioners Integrate Usability Engineering in Software Development?

Together with my co-author Jan Stage, I got a paper accepted at the 5th International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering (HCSE 2014). Abstract It has been argued that too much research on usability engineering is incoherent with the processes, and settings being the realities for practitioners. In this paper we want to extend the existing knowledge […]

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TagPad: Supporting Field Interviews and Analysis

My co-author Louise Barkhuus and I got a paper accepted at iConference 2013. The conference will be held February 12 – 15, 2013 in Fort Worth, TX, USA. I will present the paper, something I’m looking very much forward too! In this paper, we report on experiences with the data collection tool TagPad. We presented […]