Socio-Instrumental Criteria for Assessing Information Systems
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The concept of usability contains different analytic tools, which support developers to focus on important aspects of IT-system design and evaluation. Usability research has focused both cognitive aspects of IT-systems (such as how to design the user interface), as well as an understanding of the work tasks the user performs using the IT-system. This paper presents an analysis of a set of commonly used usability principles. The analysis is based on a conceptualization of the user interface concept, which is based on a socio-instrumental perspective that acknowledges the communicative character of IT-systems. It is shown that contemporary usability principles need to be reinterpreted and complemented with design principles based on social action and human-to-human communication.
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