Research Paper

Integrating Agile and User-Centered Design

Abstract

Agile software engineering and user-centered design are two important development processes for ensuring that an application has good user experience. However, integrating these two different processes into a single Agile-UX approach remains difficult. We performed a systematic mapping study to identify relevant research and understand what the field of Agile-UX looks like at present. This mapping discovered that there were only a few evaluation and validation papers published to date, so we performed a review of these papers to better understand the recommendations of these types of papers. Based on this, we are able both to provide a discussion of common trends in these papers that should be of interest to practitioners and to identify gaps in existing literature that indicate strong opportunities for future work.

Gabriela Jurca
Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
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Theodore D. Hellmann
Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
[email protected]

Frank Maurer
Department of Computer Science
University of Calgary
Calgary, Alberta, Canada
[email protected]

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