EDITAL N.º 085 DEFESA DE TESE DE DOUTORADO À DISTÂNCIA

A Coordenação do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Informática torna pública a realização à distância, da Defesa de Tese de Doutorado de KARINA PAULA DE CAMARGO CURCIO, no dia 14 de outubro de 2021, às 13h00.

https://us06web.zoom.us/j/88013411673?pwd=VjJHbEhOTk01cGZSUmh3NGY0cXNLZz09

Títle: “AN APPROACH FOR USER EXPERIENCE DESIGN INTEGRATION INTO AGILE SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT”

Abstract: The agile software development methodologies, after the emergence of the Agile Manifesto, are gaining more space and consolidating in the market. However, the focus of these methodologies is on the development of products based on the core functionalities to be delivered to customers, in order to quickly add value. Non-functional requirements, such as usability and user experience, are little explored during agile software development. Although there is a lot of interaction between the development team and their customers, with constant feedback, what we see is that the results of software products are often useful but not necessarily usable. On the other hand, companies are increasingly interested in providing positive user experiences. In this way, this work intends to create an approach to enable usability integration in agile software development focusing on the user experience practices, artifacts and team integration. To accomplish this goal the research was separated into four phases: an initial planning with the execution of an exploratory research to delimit the objectives and initial questions, an exploratory phase composed of a literature review and multiple case studies; a development phase to propose a new approach to integrate usability and agile software development focusing on the user experience; and an evaluation and conclusion phase to perform an evaluation, collect the results and analyze them. The case studies were conducted with seven companies and sixteen employees with different roles. The results showed some deficiencies regarding the use of artifacts, practices, and tools to exploit the user experience. In relation to roles and teams, it was also possible to identify different forms of team composition, but a limitation of resources in the area of UX/UI design was explicit. Based on the information that was gathered, the new approach UXIAD was created and put into practice so that it could be evaluated. For this, two questionnaires were applied. One focused on the users of the approach and the other on the users of the systems that were developed using the new approach. In general, the results obtained from the questionnaire were positive. This leads us to believe that, despite having identified points of improvement in the process, we achieved the research objective of creating an approach capable of integrating agile development with usability, aiming at better experiences for the final users.
Keywords: agile software development, usability, user experience, user-centered design.

A Banca será composta por:

Profa. Dra. Andreia Malucelli (orientadora) – PUCPR/PPGIa
Profa. Dra. Sheila Reinehr - PUCPR/PPGIa
Prof. Dr. Emerson Cabrera Paraiso – PUCPR/PPGIa
Profa. Dra. Rafaela Mantovani Fontana – UFPR
Profa. Dra. Silvia Amélia Bim – UTFPR
Prof. Dr. Marcelo Thiry – UNIVALI

Curitiba, 07 de outubro de 2021.