Open AccessThree Approaches to Teaching Software Ergonomics
Author(s) -
Jakob Nielsen
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
daimi pb
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2245-9316
pISSN - 0105-8517
DOI - 10.7146/dpb.v13i184.7457
Subject(s) - human factors and ergonomics , software , software engineering , computer science , mathematics education , human–computer interaction , psychology , programming language , poison control , medicine , environmental health
Instruction strategies and experiences are reported from (1) a university course for computer science graduate students, (2) a continuing education course for programming school teachers, (3) a software ergonomics awareness course for hardware ergonomists. It is concluded that software ergonomics courses should include specific examples of user friendly systems and of human factors experiments as well as generally applicable theories and concepts. These theories and concepts should be used as a framework for the examples