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Department of Information Technology

Usability, work environment and computer supported work

References to some of our previous projects

Verka-projektet
Organizational development and work environment. A project with Skatteverket and Riskförsäkringsverket, financed by Vinnova.

DUS-projektet
The usability of computer systems and user-centred system design.

Publications

Both projects produced several publications. Below the most important publications are presented. Some are available as files, others have been published in scientific journals and can accessed through the journals.

Thesis

Journals

  • Boivie,I., Gulliksen, J. & Göransson, B. (2004). The Lonesome Cowboy - A Study of the Usability Designer Role in Systems Development. Submitted to Interacting with Computers April 2004.
  • Boivie, I., Åborg, C., Persson, J. and Löfberg, M., (2003). Why usability gets lost or usability in in-house software development. Interacting with Computers, vol 15, pp 623-639.
  • Boivie, I., Blomkvist, S., Persson, J., and Åborg, C., (2003). Addressing users' health issues in software development -- an exploratory study. Behaviour & Information Technology, special section on Designing IT for Healthy Work. Volume 22, No. 6. pp 411-420.
  • Göransson, B., Gulliksen, J. & Boivie, I. (2003). The Usability Design Process - Integrating User-Centered Systems Design in the Software Development Process. In the Special Issue on Bridging the Process and Practice Gaps Between Software Engineering and Human Computer Interaction edited by Len Bass and Rick Kazman. Software Process Improvement and Practice, Volume 8, Number 2. p 111-131
  • Sandblad, B., Gulliksen, J., Åborg, C., Boivie, I., Persson, J., Göransson, B., Kavathatzopoulos, I., Blomkvist, S. & Cajander, Å. (2003). Work environment and computer systems development. Behaviour & Information Technology, special section on Designing IT for Healthy Work. Volume 22, No. 6. pp. 375 - 387
  • Gulliksen, J., Göransson, B., Boivie, I., Blomkvist, S., Persson, J. & Cajander, Å. (2003). Key principles for user-centred systems design. Behaviour & Information Technology, special section on Designing IT for Healthy Work. Volume 22, No. 6. pp. 397 - 409.

Conferences

  • Gulliksen, J., Boivie,I., Persson, J., Hektor, A. & Herulf, L. (2004). Making a difference - a survey of the usability profession, in: Hyrskykari, A. (Ed.), Proceedings of NordiCHI 2004, ACM Press, 2004, pp 207-215
  • Blomkvist, S., Boivie, I., Masoodian, M., and Persson, J., From Piles to Tiles: Designing for Overview and Control in Case Handling Systems. Conference Proceedings of OZCHI 2004, The CHISIG Annual Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (Wollongong, Australia, 20-24 November), Ergonomics Society of Australia, in print

Technical Reports

Updated  2007-03-21 15:33:47 by Elina Eriksson.