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Ann Light from Usabilitynews.com announced that the UPA will launch a new “Journal of Usability Studies” in late 2005.
This publication will be a peer-reviewed, on-line journal dedicated to promoting and enhancing the practice, research, and education of usability engineering.
The Journal of Usability Studies will publish articles on:
- Quantitative and qualitative user studies that have some generalization value for any interactive product
- Empirical findings of usability tests (but not the full usability reports)
- Comparative studies between usability methods, approaches, methods, and techniques for planning and conducting usability tests
- Newly defined and tested usability metrics or data analysis approaches
- Academic research that has strong practical and applicable implications for design and testing
- Critical or thought/discussion papers challenging and questioning practices and proposing innovative ideas and approaches
- Empirical development and implementation of usability standards and guidelines.
- Comments, replies, and responses to published articles.
The journal will appear online quarterly starting the last quarter of 2005. It will be linked to the ACMs digital library. Each submitted manuscript will undergo a blind peer-review process managed by the members of the editorial board. To ensure a rapid turn-around and currency of published papers, each accepted paper will undergo only one revision round when necessary.
Internetverweis
Journal of Usability Studies: Call for Papers
usabilitynews: UPA Journal of Usability Studies to Start late 2005
