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Agile User Centered Design Integration (AUCDI) is the practice of combining User Centered Design(UCD) with agile development processes. None of the existing agile processes explicitly include principles and practices for understanding and eliciting testable and verifiable usability and user experience requirements. Similarly, design practices for satisfying requirements for usability and user experience or practices for evaluating systems developed via agile processes for usability and user experience are generally absent. In addition, substantial differences exist between agile and UCD approaches which pose challenges to integration attempts.

More specifically in regards to XP, it was criticized for being light on the user side of software and apparently is better used with non GUI intensive applications. Moreover, requirements engineering as an activity within XP was not explicitly defined. Furthermore, XP has no explicit process for dealing with interaction design thus the question of how to devise an initial design is largely unanswered. Although agile methods accentuate testing, and XP involves acceptance and unit testing, nevertheless, there is an absence of supportive practices for direct support of usability testing. As a result dealing with usability issues in XP is totally dependent on the expertise of the onsite customer.

The workshop will be accepting submissions in the following topics

  • Challenges in integrating agile and user centered design
  • Lessons learned in integrating agile and user centered design
  • Best practices/success factors in integrating agile and user centered design
  • Integrating agile and user centered design in software engineering and human computer interaction education
  • Future research directions for integrating agile and user centered design

Important Dates

  • Submission deadline: 8th of May 2013
  • Author notifications: 15th of May 2013
  • Camera-ready extended papers due: 22nd of May 2013
  • Workshop: 7th of June 2013