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Lehre Angebot SS 2004

Usability of Groupware-Tools
(3 ects)

DozentIn:
Christoph Taubmann, Oliver Kaiser, Birgit Heidtke

Inhalt:

Usability stands for the utility of a product and aims at its acceptability by the end users. Usability research attempts to implement scientific findings into the development of software etc.
The seminar will elicit current approaches to usability in their suppositions and heuristics. At the same time approaches to gender aspects in usability research will be analysed. The seminar then will develop heuristics that enable to explore usability of groupware, in respect of diverse user groups. The social implications of current terms as efficiency, learnability, user’s satisfaction that generally outline usability shall be questioned. The developed heuristics will be tested to analyse and evaluate selected groupware tools (and groupware functions on e-learning platforms). The seminar’s results will be displayed in a multi-media presentation that could serve as guideline for decision makers in university and enterprises.

Literatur:

P.W. Jordan (1998) An Introduction to Usability. London.
Baker, K.; Greenberg, S.; Gutwin, C.; (2001): Heuristic Evaluation of Groupware Based on the Mechanics of Collaboration. Proceedings of the 8th IFIÜ Working Conference on Engineering for Human-Computer-Interaction (EHCI´01) Toronto, Canada.
Baker, K., Greenberg, S. and Gutwin, C. (2002): Empirical development of a heuristic evaluation methodology for shared workspace groupware. Proceedings of the ACM Conference on Computer Supported Cooperative Work, ACM Press.
Pohl, M.; Michaelson, G. (1997). "I don't think that's an interesting dialogue": Computer-Mediated Communication and Gender. In: Grundy,F.; et al. (Hg.): Women, Work and Computerization: Spinning a Web from Past to Future. Springer.
H.Wiesner, H. Schelhowe, U. Peter, H. Schottmüller, C. Kedenburg (2002) „GM-guideline“: Gender Mainstreaming im Kontext Neuer Medien.
www.medien-bildung.net/forum/attachments/GMGuidelineStand25November02.doc