José A. Macías
ABSTRACT
The growth of ICT (Information and Communication Technology) has recently motivated end users, with no computer science skills, to take an active role in the computing world by building and customizing software artifacts on their own according to specific needs. This trend has gradually transformed end users into programmers or software designers, thus taking part in technical development activities. However, this fact may introduce a risk factor and produce a significant socioeconomic impact in the way software is produced by such users, unbalancing the roles of both programmers and end users by giving technical roles to unskilled users. This article discusses such issues and proposes guidelines for enhancing design principles and assisting end users in most complex parts of domain-software customization, rather than enabling the user to program or manage software directly. To this end, in this paper three supporting tools are introduced to provide end users with authoring environments to easily customize software. The tools have been created under a user-centered paradigm, also evaluated in order to measure its usability and demonstrate the scope and adequacy for the end-user's domain.
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Digital Library
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- Rojas, L and Macías, J. A. End-User Support for Information Architecture Analysis in Interactive Web Applications. Proceedings of the 13th IFIP TC 13 International Conference (Interact 2011). Lisbon, Portugal, September 5--9, 2011, pp. 515--518. Google ScholarDigital Library
Index Terms
- Development of end-user-centered EUD software
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