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Assessing communication effectiveness of pattern names

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Neha Jain,

Puneeth Hegde,

Radhakrishna SamadAuthors Info & Claims

APCHI '13: Proceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction

Pages 400 - 405

https://doi.org/10.1145/2525194.2525309

Published: 24 September 2013 Publication History

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Pattern languages are usually developed to help in communication in multidisciplinary teams. If all members are familiar with the pattern language then stating the name of the pattern is enough to communicate the situation to the entire team. In case the understanding of the pattern language is different the communication can/will fail entirely.

Touch Point Eco System (TPES) is a pattern language written for the Service Design field where typically a multidisciplinary team works together. A quantitative study was conducted to estimate the communication effective of TPES by assessing whether the names of the patterns indicate the same understanding to the reader as explained by the author in the pattern description. With a chosen sampling frame a questionnaire was administered and data was collected. The data was later analyzed and the results are presented. With this paper we propose a direction to evaluate communication effectiveness of pattern languages.

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Assessing communication effectiveness of pattern names
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. HCI theory, concepts and models
  2. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design
    2. Interaction design theory, concepts and paradigms

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APCHI '13: Proceedings of the 11th Asia Pacific Conference on Computer Human Interaction

September 2013

420 pages

ISBN:9781450322539

DOI:10.1145/2525194

General Chairs:
Sanjay Tripathi
ABB Corporate Research, India
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Anirudha Joshi
IIT Bombay, India

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