Title :
A case study on participatory redesign of web site with scenario-based techniques
Author :
Go, Kentaro ; Takahashi, Tomokazu ; Imamiya, Atsumi
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Comput. Sci. & Media Eng., Yamanashi Univ., Japan
Abstract :
Participatory design has been used to bring user requirements into design of interactive multimedia systems. The case study of participatory design, discussed in this paper, employs scenario-based techniques for redesigning a Web site of Computer Science Department. It reveals that scenarios can encourage real users to participate in redesign activities and to identify usability problems on Web sites, yet they may feel that scenario writing process becomes an effort. This paper discusses some issues on conducting scenario-based participatory redesign of Web sites also
Keywords :
authoring systems; information resources; multimedia systems; interactive multimedia; participatory redesign; scenario writing; scenario-based techniques; user requirements; web site; Computer aided software engineering; Computer science; Design engineering; Design methodology; Multimedia systems; Process design; Usability; Vocabulary; Web page design; Writing;
Conference_Titel :
Parallel and Distributed Systems: Workshops, Seventh International Conference on, 2000
Conference_Location :
Iwate
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0571-6
DOI :
10.1109/PADSW.2000.884532