Rationale research in software development is a challenging area because although there
is no shortage of advocates for its value, there is also no shortage of reasons for why …

With the increasing complexity of User Interfaces (UI) it is more and more necessary to make
users understand the UI. We promote a Model-Driven approach to improve the perceived …

Requirements engineering for interactive systems remains a cumbersome task still under-
supported by notations, development processes and tools. Indeed, in the field of HCI, the …

Heuristic evaluation is one of the most used and discount usability evaluation
methodologies. However, it has some manual steps that could be semi-automated to …

Justification of choices made throughout the design process of systems is a recurrent desire
and quite often a formal request from certification authorities in the safety critical domain …

In the last decades a huge amount of knowledge about user interface design has been
gathered in the form of guidelines. Quite often, guidelines are compiled according to user …

Interactive system design is typically more successful if it is an iterative process involving
collaboration between multi-disciplinary teams with different viewpoints. While some sub …

This chapter presents a multi-perspective approach for the design of interactive safety-
critical systems called the" Generic Integrated Modeling Framework"(GIMF). It proposes a …

Task modeling consists of a fundamental activity that initiates usercentered design in user
interface development. It is therefore important to reach the best task model possible and …

Interaction design processes are characterised by multi-disciplinary teamwork and by an
interplay of creative, situated and analytical thinking. Although design in the domain of …