Focus Group Foci: employing Participants' HCI and Application Domain Expertise in Interaction Design
2015 (English)In: New Contributions in Information Systems and Technologies / [ed] Alvaro Rocha, Ana Maria Correia, Sandor Costanzo, Luis Paulo Reis, Springer Publishing Company, 2015, Vol. 353, p. 1057-1063Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
The paper reports a study in which two aspects of interaction design - human interaction with technology and acting through technology were analyzed in the context of participatory sessions having the focus group format. The sessions were conducted as a part of redesigning a novel digital artifact, a web-based project management tool. An initial prototype of the artifact was introduced to two different groups of participants possessing expertise in, respectively, human-computer interaction (HCI) and teaching and learning, a key target application domain for the tool. Re-design suggestions provided by each of the focus groups were found to address issues with both user interface and functionality of the prototype. The main difference between the groups was in whether they primarily focused on interaction efficiency or artifact's integration into a larger social and technological context. Implications of the study for further development of participatory methods in interaction design are discussed.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Publishing Company, 2015. Vol. 353, p. 1057-1063
Series
Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, ISSN 2194-5357 ; 353
Keywords [en]
Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), interaction design, focus groups, user interface, application domains, project management
National Category
Interaction Technologies Human Aspects of ICT
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-110705DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-16486-1_104ISI: 000381744400104Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84926329190ISBN: 978-3-319-16486-1 (print)ISBN: 978-3-319-16485-4 (print)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:umu-110705DiVA, id: diva2:864293
Conference
3rd World Conference on Information Systems and Technologies (WorldCIST'15), Ponta Delgada, São Miguel, Portugal, April 1-3, 2015
2015-10-262015-10-262023-03-24Bibliographically approved