Integrating user-centered design practices into agile Web development: A case study
In this study we empirically investigate the integration of User-Centered Design (UCD) practices into agile Web development. We propose a hybrid process framework which extends the agile development process, adding lightweight usability engineering practices. We conducted a case study in academia with postgraduate students to empirically evaluate the impact of the hybrid process to the quality of the web products, based on a defect quality analysis through the development phases from user stories gathering up to delivery of the products. The statistical analysis of the quantitative data showed a great improvement in the distribution of the closing-defects across the development phases and full reduction of the defects number, leading to increased quality.
ABSTRACTBackground: Although it is generally presumed that experienced clinicians are capable of making reasonable decisions concerning rehabilitation potential, inexperienced clinicians may expend efforts and resources somewhat unproductively in managing patients with nonprogressive neurological conditions such as stroke. Clinicians with varied experience may also be influenced by extraneous factors least likely to contribute to an effective admission and treatment planning. Purpose: We report a process for efficient utilization of resources to maximize outcome following stroke rehabilitation. Description: A care planning process with distinctive features of patient profiling, treatment tracking, and outcome staircasing was developed and utilized in the subacute stroke management of African American stroke survivors in an inpatient facility in New York. Outcome of stroke rehabilitation care were compared before and after the implementation of the process using Functional Independence Measures (FIM) score...