The School of Computer Engineering of the Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaiso invites the community to a talk:
“Introduction to User-Centered Design: Usability, Accessibility and User Experience”.
Rapporteur: Dr. Federico Botella
Miguel Hernández University (Elche, Spain)
The event will be held on March 17, 2017 at 11:45 a.m., at IBC 2.1, Edificio Isabel Brown Caces, Avda. Brasil no. 2241, 2nd floor.
Usability usually goes unnoticed by companies and they usually present an entry barrier to the Usability Engineer in the work processes, since the businessman does not usually appreciate the benefits of usability. On the contrary, accessibility is usually admitted insofar as, on the one hand, it is obligatory to comply with current Spanish legislation for the websites of Public Administrations and large companies and, on the other hand, society is more aware of the concept of accessibility, as it finds frequent examples in everyday life. On the other hand, some companies go further and have impregnated their business culture with the philosophy of the user experience and apply it throughout their production chain or in their services to create a brand image that allows them to differentiate themselves from their competitors. These three concepts must also be included in our computer engineering designs and projects from the earliest stages and by applying User-Centered Design. The presentation will present the basic concepts of DCU, usability, UX and accessibility reaching the dilemma of whether accessibility precedes usability/UX or vice versa, and always keeping in mind the User-Centered Design when we start an engineering project.
Federico Botella is a professor in the Department of Statistics, Mathematics and Computer Science and a research associate at the Instituto Universitario “Operative Research Center” of the Miguel Hernández University in Elche, Spain. He is currently Vice-rector of Information Technology at the Miguel Hernández University, and has been Director of the Instituto Universitario “Centro de Investigación Operativa” at the Miguel Hernández University in Elche from 2011 to 2016. He has a degree in Computer Science and a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Alicante. His current lines of research are Human-Computer Interaction and Usability Engineering, especially in the development of web applications for the automatic evaluation of interactive systems.
