This paper discusses the application of a user-centered design (UCD) approach to a webbased application system that supports data management components of the high-stakes assessment lifecycle. In order to fully explore how a UCD approach enhances the process for developing a web-based application system that supports data management for paper and computer testing, this paper starts with an expl...

II HELSINKI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY ABSTRACT OF MASTER’S THESIS Author: Title of the thesis: Date: 7.1.2002 Mikael Johnson Towards Web-based Requirements Management – a Case Study in a Distributed Software Development Organisation Number of Pages: 89 Department: Professorship: Computer Science and Engineering Tik-121 User Interfaces and Usability Supervisor and Instructor: Professor Marko Niem...

Developing new digital tools to fit the needs of communicative urban and green area planning requires understanding various prospective user groups, different contexts use, tasks, activities at hand. However, it is not self-evident that research can be applied in innovation projects with limited human time resources. In this article, a user-centered design (UCD) approach development collaborati...

BACKGROUND Cadmium exposure has been inconsistently related to blood pressure. OBJECTIVES We updated and reevaluated the evidence regarding the relationships of blood cadmium (BCd) and urine cadmium (UCd) with blood pressure (BP) and hypertension (HTN) in nonoccupationally exposed populations. DATA SOURCES AND EXTRACTION We searched PubMed and Web of Science for articles on BCd or UCd and B...

objectives: mastectomy as a treatment for breast cancer can disturb marital satisfaction of many couples. in this way, existential anxieties stemming from this potentially deleterious event, and inefficient responses to them, could be mediating. the purpose of this study is to investigate the effectiveness of a rehabilitation method based on existential approach and olson's marital enrichm...

Smart mobile and wearable technology offers exciting opportunities to support people with dementia (PwD). Its ubiquity and popularity could even benefit user adoption - a great challenge for assistive technology (AT) for PwD that calls for user-centred design (UCD) methods. This study describes a user-centred approach to developing and testing AT based on off-the-shelf pervasive technologies. A...

Major histocompatibility (B) complex haplotypes BQ and B17 were examined for their effect on Rous sarcoma outcome. Pedigree matings of BQB17 chickens from the second backcross generation (BC2) of Line UCD 001 (BQBQ) mated to Line UCD 003 (B17B17) produced progeny with genotypes BQBQ, BQB17, and B17B17. Sixweek-old chickens were injected with subgroup A Rous sarcoma virus (RSV). The tumors were ...

This article uses a case study of “Zero Pollution Village” (ZPV) initiative in Zhejiang, China, to illustrate how the Chinese state attempts achieve rural revitalisation by harnessing principles uneven and combined development (UCD) relying on leadership returned migrants known as “country sages” (乡贤, xiangxian). The ostensible goals are improve solid waste management develop ecotourism, creati...

Measurements of intake and uptake of cadmium in relation to diet composition were carried out in 57 nonsmoking women, 20-50 years of age. A vegetarian/high-fiber diet and a mixed-diet group were constructed based on results from a food frequency questionnaire. Duplicate diets and the corresponding feces were collected during 4 consecutive days in parallel with dietary recording of type and amou...

Software design is a process of transformation from problem domain to implementation domain based on two crucial models: conceptual and system models. User-Centred Design (UCD) differs from traditional software design in the perspective providing to conceptual modelling. It concentrates on knowledge about the context of use rather than the accidental features of problem domain. UCD is also conc...