TY - GEN
T1 - Teaching usability to industrial engineering students
AU - Nunes, Isabel L.
N1 - sem pdf.
Foundation for Science and Technology under the project UNIDEMI Ref UID/EMS/00667/2013.
PY - 2017
Y1 - 2017
N2 - Industrial Engineers determine a better way to do things and work in varied professional areas, which includes Ergonomics. Usability is a key topic in Ergonomics, related with the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction of human-system interactions. Usability impacts companies’ productivity and economic success since, e.g. the occurrence of errors can lead to incidents and/or accidents; to do unnecessary operations increases the load and/or the gestures repetition, with potential for the development of work related musculoskeletal disorders; and users’ dissatisfaction can become a risk factor for the development of stress, with all the consequences associated with it. In this context the thematic of Usability was initiated in the Master program of Industrial Engineering. A learn-by-doing approach was introduced in order to assist students’ reach the defined learning outcomes. The paper offers some insights on the benefits of the adopted methodology, analyzes results of the last four years and discusses some observed trends.
AB - Industrial Engineers determine a better way to do things and work in varied professional areas, which includes Ergonomics. Usability is a key topic in Ergonomics, related with the effectiveness, efficiency and satisfaction of human-system interactions. Usability impacts companies’ productivity and economic success since, e.g. the occurrence of errors can lead to incidents and/or accidents; to do unnecessary operations increases the load and/or the gestures repetition, with potential for the development of work related musculoskeletal disorders; and users’ dissatisfaction can become a risk factor for the development of stress, with all the consequences associated with it. In this context the thematic of Usability was initiated in the Master program of Industrial Engineering. A learn-by-doing approach was introduced in order to assist students’ reach the defined learning outcomes. The paper offers some insights on the benefits of the adopted methodology, analyzes results of the last four years and discusses some observed trends.
KW - Human-system interaction
KW - Learn-by-doing
KW - Learning outcomes
KW - Student-centered learning
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84986253564
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-41956-5_15
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-41956-5_15
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84986253564
SN - 978-331941955-8
VL - 497
T3 - Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing
SP - 155
EP - 162
BT - Advances in Human Factors and System Interactions - Proceedings of the AHFE International Conference on Human Factors and System Interactions, 2016
PB - Springer Verlag
T2 - International Conference on Human Factors and System Interactions, 2016
Y2 - 27 July 2016 through 31 July 2016
ER -