Re: benchmarck of UCD practices

Thank you Mike.

William, I think that in 2000 you've made some survey about UCD. Could you
provide to some more data about that?

Best regards

Giorgio Venturi

Mike Pringle wrote:

> You could try:
>
> Bawa, J., Dorazio, P,. Trenner, L. (eds.), The Usability Business,
> Springer-Verlag, 2001
>
> which presents real world cases highlighting the problems of gaining
> acceptability for usability within the confines, and political minefields,
> of real world business scenarios
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Giorgio Venturi" <[email protected]>
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> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2003 1:35 PM
> Subject: benchmarck of UCD practices
>
> > I am planning to make a benchmarck of UCD practices in the industry via a
> > survey.
> >
> > As far as I know, assessments of the effectiveness and maturity of HCI e
> HF
> > activities in the industry are surprisingly not frequent.
> > Some problems highlighted by recent studies show that most prominent
> obstacles
> > to UCD effectiveness are:
> >
> >    * Lack of data on cost-effectiveness of UCD Design activities;
> >    * Lack of knowledge from HF and HCI professionals about Organizational,
> >      Practices, Prejudicial obstacles.
> >
> > I have found a good publication from Vradenbourg and colleagues:
> >
> >
> >    * Vredenburg, K., Mao, J.Y., et al., A survey of User Centred Design in
> >      practice, CHI letters, Vol. 4, Iss. N. 1, 2002
> >
> > Could you please point me out some resources of this kind?
> >
> > Best regards
> >
> > Giorgio Venturi
> > Research fellow
> > ThalesGroup Netherland
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