Maria L. Villegas

Activity Taxonomy: Analysis of Proposals for Development of Interactive Systems

In developing an interactive system, the part of the design corresponding to the specification of the functionality is commonly directed by the requirements. The specifications of these requirements are based on templates that classify activity in a way that in most cases, developers are not conscious and therefore do not understand how wrong classification due to methodological weaknesses, affects the understanding that has the user in relation with the system he is using. An ideal situation is that the developer fully understands what the impact of wrong classification and helps him to recognize the limits to define a scope for usability, safety or any other aspect. Our proposal is to define an activity classification model and make explicit the need for it to serve as a framework to promote software quality mainly it has to do with the Human Computer Interaction (HCI).

HCI Incorporation: a case for Colombia

This paper shows a practical case of HCI incorporation in Colombian software development companies, mainly in the Colombian coffee region. This case is supported by a self-sustaining ecosystem model that emerges from the academy approach to software development companies. This ecosystem model is a response for the need to translate scientific knowledge into practical actions that can be performed by development engineers. This ecosystem should give coverage to all the necessary elements to generate real services of HCI incorporation, regardless of the nature of projects that software development companies are doing. We have been concretizing, one by one, all the necessary components of this ecosystem which have been registered into a log full of events that take place in various capacities which a self-sustaining business model must deal with.

Activity taxonomy [ATx]: roadmap for the development of interactive systems

In this paper we present the use of an Activity Taxonomy as a Framework for the definition of a roadmap for the development of interactive systems. The roadmap is supported by a set of interrelated elements to capture the information to specify and model an interactive system. Those elements are: Method, Notation and Tool. A case study is presented to show the use of the roadmap proposed.

Roadmap for the Development of the User Interface in Interactive Systems

In this paper we present the definition of a roadmap for the development of the user interface in interactive systems. The roadmap is supported by a set of interrelated elements to capture the information to specify and model an interactive system. Those elements are: Method, Notation and Tool. This work emphasizes only the method and the notation. We present in detail the diagrams and other artifacts that support the proposed roadmap, by defining a case study.

A research study on the use of the internet and its influence on human interaction

This is a study on the use of internet. The objective is to demonstrate that currently, the internet is mostly used in human-human interaction. A systematic review is conducted and studies are presented. However, the difficulty in this type of research and the complex characteristics of the internet analyzed from the perspective of human-human interaction make the results, even when they are not favorable, valid for the specification of future work.