An Introduction to Software Usability

Interactive computer applications have become ubiquitous and therefore large sections of our societies have become users of computer software. In this context the issue of Software Usability has gained prime importance. So computer professionals and the software industry need to put special attention in this issue. In this paper an introduction to the field of Software Usability is attempted. This is a prominent area of the discipline of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) that studies interaction of humans and computer machinery and focuses on the design of interactive computer systems. The paper introduces a workshop on Software Usability, organised by the network of Excellence on Software Usability, which has been active for the last two years in Greece.