CAPTURING AND DISSEMINATING USABILITY PATTERNS WITH SEMANTIC WEB TECHNOLOGY

Our research has focused on tools that help deliver patterns (and usability guidelines) to software developers during the development process and developing a repository that is refined through project experience [Henninger 2000]. In the following, we will give a brief overview of the issues we are addressing in this area, taking the position that large-scale deployment of patterns with explicit contextual representations have the potential to become a significant tool in both the software development process and the scientific understanding of usability for software applications.