Call for papers

Authors are invited to submit manuscripts addressing various aspects of quantitative and qualitative usability studies that have a strong generalization value to other practitioners working with any human-interactive product.

This can include (but are not limited to):

• empirical findings of usability studies (but not the full usability reports),
• comparative studies between usability methods, approaches, methods, and techniques for planning and conducting usability tests
• newly defined and tested usability metrics,
• data analysis approaches,
• academic research that has strong practical and applicable implications to design and testing,
• critical or thought/discussion papers challenging and questioning practices and proposing innovative ideas and approaches,
• reporting the design and implementation of teaching or training approaches,
• descriptions and discussions of automated, computerized tools for usability data collection and testing, or
• the empirical development and implementation of usability standards and guidelines.

'Usability studies' can include:

• experiments,
• laboratory studies,
• field studies,
• contextual inquiries,
• ethnographic studies,
• remote testing,
• expert or heuristic evaluations,
• model-based evaluations
• and other techniques.