Speaker: Hadar Ziv, UC Irivine

Title: Human Centered Software Engineering: If it doesn't work for people, it doesn't work!

Abstract:
For modern software and systems with software to be successful, it has to not only work, it also must provide an engaging, useful and usable experience.
This talk presents an integrated approach to practical software design for use by humans. The talk covers best practices of Human-Centered Design (HCD) as well as its Return On Investment; HCD methods useful to software development
and an overall HCD lifecycle model; and finally a process framework that combines and unifies HCD with Software Engineering to improve development of systems for use by humans.
The talk is based on many years' experience in both research as well as our students’ repeated success in following this integrated design method in their year-long capstone project course at UC Irvine.