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Erschienen in: Universal Access in the Information Society 1-2/2008

01.04.2008 | Long Paper

A systematic examination of universal design resources: part 1, heuristic evaluation

verfasst von: Chris M. Law, Ji Soo Yi, Young Sang Choi, Julie A. Jacko

Erschienen in: Universal Access in the Information Society | Ausgabe 1-2/2008

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Abstract

This paper presents the evaluation of eight published Universal Design Resources (UDRs) to measure how effectively they support typical design processes and design psychology. New heuristics and principles to evaluate the UDRs from the point of view of designers who were universal design novices were created. Established methodologies for heuristic evaluation were used with the new heuristics. The evaluators found numerous problems in seven of the eight UDRs, providing evidence in support of the hypothesis that the content UDRs does not facilitate the design process and is not commensurate with what is known about typical design psychology.

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1
ITTATC’s list was avaialble at the time of writing, but a note on their site states that their funding expired in May 2006 (http://​www.​ittatc.​org).
 
2
See URL in acknowledgments section for the UDiP website with information on all papers relating to this project.
 
3
In future studies under the UDiP project we plan to investigate how designers utilize multiple resources.
 
4
There were a number of iterations of the list of heuristics. We conducted pilot studies with a higher number of heuristics. The final list is as described herein. We employed the same format of Nielsen’s list of heuristics, with a title followed by a short paragraph of explanatory text (see Appendix A).
 
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Metadaten
Titel
A systematic examination of universal design resources: part 1, heuristic evaluation
verfasst von
Chris M. Law
Ji Soo Yi
Young Sang Choi
Julie A. Jacko
Publikationsdatum
01.04.2008
Verlag
Springer-Verlag
Erschienen in
Universal Access in the Information Society / Ausgabe 1-2/2008
Print ISSN: 1615-5289
Elektronische ISSN: 1615-5297
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10209-007-0100-1

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