Highlights

The results of UXLERIS works have been publishing in high-quality HCI and Software Engineering conferences and journals.

The team also disseminates UXLERIS findings to society by delivering several presentations in schools, academic weeks, and reporting notes in Sorocaba’s newspaper.

Important outcomes and awards  can be highlighted:

• Software Startups and UX: survey collecting the UX practices applied by Brazilian software startups.
  • SAAD, J.; SILVEIRA, S.; MARTINELLI, S.; ZAINA. L. UX em startups: quais práticas utilizar? 12 práticas úteis para UX designers que trabalham diretamente com produtos de startups. UX Collective Brasil. 2020.
  •  SILVEIRA, S.;  ZAINA. L. UX in Brazilian Startups: A Technical Report about UX work (in Portuguese). 2021

• UX Information in an agile team:  how UX information flow in an agile software team discussing the issues and giving some recommendations to mitigate the problems.
  • ZAINA, L; SHARP, H. ; BARROCA, L.. UX information in the daily work of an agile team: A distributed cognition analysis. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HUMAN-COMPUTER STUDIES, 2021.

• User Stories and UX: proposal of recommendations and artefacts to support agile software teams in their work with UX information.
  • SOUZA, J. H. J. ; MARQUES, L. C. ; CONTE, T. U. ; ZAINA, L. A. M. . Descrevendo requisitos de User eXperience em Critérios de Aceitação de User Stories. In: WER20 – Workshop em Engenharia de Requisitos, 2020, São José dos Campos. Anais do WER20 – Workshop em Engenharia de Requisitos. Rio de Janeiro: Editora PUC-Rio, 2020. v. 23.
  • FILHO, ABNER ; ZAINA, L. . Navigational Distances between UX Information and User Stories in Agile Virtual Environments. In: 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 2020, Prague. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 2020. p. 185-192.
  • CHOMA, J. ; ZAINA, L. A. M. ; BERALDO, D. . UserX Story: Incorporating UX Aspects into User Stories Elaboration. In: 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, 2016, Toronto. Proceedings of 18th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction. Switzerland: Springer International Publishing Switzerland, 2016. p. 131-140.

• Kanban Board and DX: empirical studies on the use of Kanban board to guide software teams daily work and the implication of it on the Developers eXperience (DX).
  • SAAD, J. ; COSTA, P. P. ; ZAINA, L. A. M. . Comunicação de requisitos em quadros kanban virtuais. In: Workshop on Requirements Engineering (WER2020), 2020, São José dos Campos. Workshop on Requirements Engineering (WER2020). Rio de Janeiro: Editora PUC-Rio, 2020. v. 23.
  • SAAD, J. G. O. ; COSTA, P. P. ; ALVARO, A. ; ZAINA, L. A. M. . Developers eXperience (DX) in ALM software tools: an investigation on virtual kanban boards. In: 34th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering, 2020, Natal. Proceedings of 34th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering. New York: ACM, 2020. p. 1.

• PWA-EU: an extension of PWA approach from Google that allows the participation of end-users as codesigners of mobile apps.
  • CARDIERI, G. A. ; ZAINA, L. A. M. .Playing the Role of Co-designers on Mobile PWAs: An Investigation of End-Users Interaction. In: 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 2020, Prague. Proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 2020. p. 476.
  • CARDIERI, G. A. ; ZAINA, L. A. M. . PWA-EU: Extending PWA Approach for Promoting Customization based on User Preferences. In: The 11th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, 2019, Valência. Proceedings of the 11th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems, 2019. v. EICS. p. 10:1-10:28.
  • CARDIERI, G. A. ; ZAINA, L. A. M. . Analyzing User Experience in Mobile Web, Native and Progressive Web Applications: A User and HCI Specialist Perspectives. In: XVII Simpósio Brasileiro sobre Fatores Humanos em Sistemas Computacionais, 2018, Belém. Proceedings of the XVII Simpósio Brasileiro sobre Fatores Humanos em Sistemas Computacionais. New York: ACM Press, 2018. p. 1-10.
• AccessGuide: guidelines to support software developers to avoid the introduction of accessibility barriers when using user interface design patterns.
  • Award: Best poster in IHC 2019.
  • NOZAKI, L. ; ZAINA, L. . Recomendações de design universal para uso de Mobile User Interface Design Patterns. In: XVIII Simpósio Brasileiro de Fatores Humanos em Sistemas Computacionais, 2019, Vitória. Anais Estendidos do Simpósio Brasileiro de Fatores Humanos em Sistemas Computacionais (IHC). Porto Alegre: Sociedade Brasileira de Computação – SBC, 2019. p. 23-24.
  • CASADEI, V.; GRANOLLERS, T.; ZAINA, L. A. M. Investigating accessibility issues of UI mobile design patterns in online communities: a virtual ethnographic study. In: XVI Simpósio Brasileiro sobre Fatores Humanos em Sistemas Computacionais, 2017, Joinville.

• UsaUSe approach: support software developers on the elaboration of user stories related to e-learning applications.
  • LOPES, L. A.; PINHEIRO, E. ; SILVA, T. ; ZAINA, L. . Requisitos de usabilidade para softwares aplicados ao e-learning: uma proposta para elaboração de User Stories. In: XXX Simpósio Brasileiro de Informática na Educação (Brazilian Symposium on Computers in Education), 2019, Brasília,  p. 1121-1130.
  • LOPES, L. A. ; PINHEIRO, E. G. ; SILVA, T. S. ; ZAINA, L. A. M. . Using UxD artefacts to support the writing of user stories. In: the 19th International Conference, 2018, Porto. Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Agile Software Development Companion – XP ’18. New York: ACM Press, 2018. p. 1-4.

• SoftCoDeR (Software Cooperative Design Research) approach: a methodology that brings together the knowledge of academia and the industry experience by matching CMD (Cooperative Method Development) with DSR (Design Science Research). In the approach, CMD and DSR are closely related to problem-solving based on the construction of artefacts to solve such problems. SoftCoDeR approach has been evaluated in real-world projects by software developers.
  • Award: in top 5 of SBES best papers.
  • CHOMA, J.; ZAINA, L. A. M.; SILVA, T. S.. Towards an Approach Matching CMD and DSR to Improve the Academia-Industry Software Development Partnership: A Case of Agile and UX Integration. In: 29th Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering, p. 51-60, Belo Horizonte, 2015.
  • CHOMA, J.; ZAINA, L. A. M.; SILVA, T. S.. SoftCoDeR approach: promoting Software Engineering Academia-Industry partnership using CMD, DSR AND ESE. Journal of Software Engineering Research and Development, v4, p 8-28, 2016.

• MapLearn approach: a user-centered technique to support teachers in the planning of learning scenarios guide by students profile.
  • WELTER, E. F.;  ZAINA, L. A. M., SANTOS, R. MapLearn: uma abordagem para apoiar a elaboração de cenários de aprendizagem baseado em personas. In: XXIII Workshop de Informática na Escola, Congresso Brasileiro de Informática na Educação, Recife, 2017.

• UX-Tips Technique: a technique to support the UX evaluation in software applications. UXLeris group collaborates with USES group in the technique development.
  • MARQUES, L.; MATSUBARA, P. ; NAKAMURA, W. ; WIESE, I.; ZAINA, L. ; CONTE, T.. UX-Tips: A UX evaluation technique to support the identification of software application problems. In: the XXXIII Brazilian Symposium, 2019, Salvador. Proceedings of the XXXIII Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering – SBES 2019, 2019. p. 224-233.

• DUCI (Design for User-Centered Innovation): a methodology to lead HCI and Entrepreneurship courses in parallel in the Computing area. The methodology is project-driven where HCI techniques, methods and fundamentals are presented as a tool to potentialize the innovation centred on the user.
  • ZAINA, L. A. M.; ALVARO, A. A design methodology for user-centered innovation in the software development area. Journal of Systems and Software, v. 110, p. 155-177, 2015. 

• HyMobWeb approach: allow developers in the implementation of static and dynamic adaptations of user interaction.
  • Award: 3rd Place in Best Paper Award.
  • BUENO, D. C. ; ZAINA, L. A. M. . Um estudo exploratório comparativo sobre adaptação web móvel em frameworks front-end na perspectiva dos usuários finais. In: XV Simpósio Brasileiro sobre Fatores Humanos em Sistemas Computacionais, 2016, São Paulo. Anais do XV Simpósio Brasileiro sobre Fatores Humanos em Sistemas Computacionais, 2016.
  • BUENO, D. C. ; ZAINA, L. A. M. . HyMobWeb: A hybrid adaptation of context-sensitive Web interfaces with multimodality support in mobile devices. In: SBC Journal of 3D Interactive Systems, v. 8, p. 20-34,  2017.
  • BUENO, D. C. ; ZAINA, L. A. M. . Run-time adaptation of modalities of interaction and context of use in web mobile apps. Journal of Visual Language and Computing, v. 2019, p. 135-144, 2019.

• CAMPOS, A. ; SOARES, E. ; MARTINS, G. ; YOSHIDA, L. ; OLIVEIRA, M. ; ZAINA, L. A. M. . Avaliação de Comunicabilidade, Usabilidade e Retorno Emocional no Transporte Público: Um Estudo do Moovit. In: XV Simpósio Brasileiro sobre Fatores Humanos em Sistemas Computacionais, 2016, São Paulo. Anais do XV Simpósio Brasileiro sobre Fatores Humanos em Sistemas Computacionais, 2016.
  • Award: Champion of the HCI Evaluation Competition 2016.