Usability and Software Architecture

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Sponsors

NASA, High Dependability Computing Program (HDCP)

Human-Computer Interaction Institute (HCII)

Software Engineering Institute (SEI)

Related Work

Waypointer

A tool that supports the Rational Unified Process. Architecture support includes usability ideas from U&SA.

Hohmann, L. (2003). Beyond Software Architecture. Reading, MA: Addison Wesley.

Usability is identified as an important influence on software architecture. U&SA cited as one of the usability references.

STATUS

European Union project to investigate relationship between usability and software architecture. STATUS is collaborating with U&SA.