Introducing a Comprehensive Quality Criteria Framework for Validating Patterns

Author

Wurhofer, Daniela ; Obrist, Marianna ; Beck, Elke ; Tscheligi, Manfred

Author_Institution

ICT&S Center, Univ. of Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria

fYear

2009

fDate

15-20 Nov. 2009

Firstpage

242

Lastpage

247

Abstract

Patterns represent an important tool for communicating, documenting and looking up best practices for both novice and expert system developers and designers. Although there are a number of different patterns and pattern languages available, it is still unclear how to validate patterns in a structured way. Within this paper, we aim to fill this gap by introducing a Quality Criteria Framework developed on the basis of existing pattern research and applied within iterative evaluation sessions for improving our developed User Experience (UX) Patterns. In particular, five main quality criteria for patterns will be presented and discussed in detail.

Keywords

pattern classification; software quality; user interfaces; pattern validation; quality criteria framework; user experience patterns; Best practices; Concrete; Expert systems; Guidelines; Human computer interaction; Iterative methods; Pattern analysis; Programming; Usability; patterns; quality framework; validation; validation methods;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Future Computing, Service Computation, Cognitive, Adaptive, Content, Patterns, 2009. COMPUTATIONWORLD '09. Computation World:

Conference_Location

Athens

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-5166-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-0-7695-3862-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ComputationWorld.2009.86

Filename

5359590