USABILITY COST-BENEFIT MODELS - Different Approaches to Usability Cost Analysis

Mikko Rajanen

2007

Abstract

There are few development organizations that have integrated usability activities as an integral part of their product development projects. One reason for this might be that the costs and benefits of usability activities are not visible to the management. In this paper the author analyses some of the characteristics of the published usability cost-benefit analysis models. These models have different approach for identifying the costs of usability.

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in Harvard Style

Rajanen M. (2007). USABILITY COST-BENEFIT MODELS - Different Approaches to Usability Cost Analysis . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-92-4, pages 332-336. DOI: 10.5220/0002407803320336


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@conference{iceis07,
author={Mikko Rajanen},
title={USABILITY COST-BENEFIT MODELS - Different Approaches to Usability Cost Analysis},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={332-336},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002407803320336},
isbn={978-972-8865-92-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,
TI - USABILITY COST-BENEFIT MODELS - Different Approaches to Usability Cost Analysis
SN - 978-972-8865-92-4
AU - Rajanen M.
PY - 2007
SP - 332
EP - 336
DO - 10.5220/0002407803320336