Title

The Practice Of Usability: Teaching User Engagement Through Service-Learning

Abstract

Pedagogical and scholarly discussions of the process of usability tend to focus more on methods than on practices, or specific, tactical performances of and adjustments to these methods. Yet such practices shape students' learning and determine the success of their usability efforts. A teacher research study tracking students' understanding and enactment of usability and user-centered design over the course of a service-learning project illustrates the importance of practice-level struggles—and the thoughtful preparation for and facilitation of these struggles—to the development of students' flexible intelligence (metis) and rhetorical translation skills. © 2008 Taylor & Francis Group, LLC.

Publication Date

1-1-2008

Publication Title

Technical Communication Quarterly

Volume

17

Issue

4

Number of Pages

381-412

Document Type

Article

Personal Identifier

scopus

DOI Link

https://doi.org/10.1080/10572250802324929

Socpus ID

77955963256 (Scopus)

Source API URL

https://api.elsevier.com/content/abstract/scopus_id/77955963256

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