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ASWEC
2007
IEEE
16 years 13 days ago
Improving Usability of Software Refactoring Tools
Post-deployment maintenance and evolution can account for up to 75% of the cost of developing a software system. Software refactoring can reduce the costs associated with evolutio...
Erica Mealy, David A. Carrington, Paul A. Strooper...
ETS
2002
IEEE
164views Hardware» more  ETS 2002»
15 years 5 months ago
Evaluating the usability of Web-based learning tools
Web-based learning tools provide integrated environments of various technologies to support diverse educators' and learners' needs via the Internet. This paper reports t...
Margaret-Anne D. Storey, B. Phillips, Mechthild Ma...
ERCIMDL
2005
Springer
139views Education» more  ERCIMDL 2005»
15 years 11 months ago
Finding Appropriate Learning Objects: An Empirical Evaluation
: The challenge of finding appropriate learning objects is one of the bottlenecks for end users in Learning Object Repositories (LORs). This paper investigates usability problems o...
Jehad Najjar, Joris Klerkx, Riina Vuorikari, Erik ...
CHI
2009
ACM
16 years 6 months ago
API usability: CHI'2009 special interest group meeting
Programmers of all types from novice end-user developers to professional software engineers make use of application programming interfaces (API) within their various designs. And,...
John M. Daughtry III, Umer Farooq, Jeffrey Stylos,...
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CHI
2011
ACM
14 years 9 months ago
More than skin deep: measuring effects of the underlying model on access-control system usability
In access-control systems, policy rules conflict when they prescribe different decisions (ALLOW or DENY) for the same access. We present the results of a user study that demonstr...
Robert W. Reeder, Lujo Bauer, Lorrie Faith Cranor,...