Authors are invited to submit manuscripts addressing various aspects of quantitative and qualitative usability studies that have a strong generalization value to other practitioners working with any human-interactive product.
This can include (but are not limited to):
- Empirical findings of usability studies (but not the full usability reports)
- Comparative studies between usability methods, approaches, methods, and techniques for planning and conducting usability tests
- Newly defined and tested usability metrics
- Data analysis approaches
- Academic research that has strong practical and applicable implications to design and testing
- Critical or thought/discussion papers challenging and questioning practices and proposing innovative ideas and approaches
- Reporting the design and implementation of teaching or training approaches
- Descriptions and discussions of automated, computerized tools for usability data collection and testing
- The empirical development and implementation of usability standards and guidelines
‘Usability studies’ can include:
- Experiments
- Laboratory studies
- Field studies
- Contextual inquiries
- Ethnographic studies
- Remote testing
- Expert or heuristic evaluations
- Model-based evaluations
- Other techniques