Usability and User Interface Design
Usability and User Interface Design is a research topic within Human-Computer Interaction. Science Explorer counts 17k research works in it since 1956. 10.0% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.
This cluster of papers focuses on the evaluation of usability in human-computer interaction, with an emphasis on user-centered design, mobile applications, cultural adaptation, and collaborative work. It covers various methods and techniques for assessing and improving the usability of interfaces, including heuristic evaluation, task analysis, and the involvement of users in the design process.
- Usability
- Human-Computer Interaction
- User-Centered Design
- Mobile Applications
- Cultural Adaptation
- Collaborative Work
- User Involvement
- Heuristic Evaluation
- Task Analysis
- Multi-Device Interfaces
- Research works
- 17k fractional, since 1956
- In the world top 10%
- 1.7k per year above
- Top-10% rate
- 10.0% share of its works in the world top 10%
- Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25
- -5% the tick is no change
- Largest producer
United States
29% of the 10 largest, 2022-now
Which countries lead Usability and User Interface Design research?
By volume, the United States and Germany publish the most (327 and 148 works in 2022-now).
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
United States
327 works
- 2
Germany
148 works
- 3
Indonesia
125 works
- 4
China
114 works
- 5
Brazil
98 works
- 6
United Kingdom
82 works
- 7
India
75 works
- 8
Canada
58 works
- 9
France
50 works
- 10
Japan
47 works
How concentrated that is
The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.
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Which institutions lead Usability and User Interface Design research?
By volume in 2022-now, Carnegie Mellon University publishes the most Usability and User Interface Design research, followed by Binus University and Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique.
By volume, 2022-now
- 1
Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States
18 works
- 2
Binus UniversityIndonesia
16 works
- 3
Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance
16 works
- 4
University of California San DiegoUnited States
10 works
- 5
Telkom UniversityIndonesia
10 works
- 6
University of WashingtonUnited States
8 works
- 7
Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil
8 works
- 8
Eindhoven University of Technology
Netherlands
8 works
- 9
Universidade de São PauloBrazil
7 works
- 10
Lublin University of Technology
Poland
7 works
Who are the leading researchers in Usability and User Interface Design?
The most-cited researchers publishing on Usability and User Interface Design include D. Gareth Evans.
- 1
D. Gareth Evans
United Kingdom
137k citations
Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.
Where is Usability and User Interface Design research done?
The largest centres of Usability and User Interface Design research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), Jakarta (Indonesia), London (United Kingdom) and Bandung (Indonesia).
Largest cities, 2022-now
- 1
BeijingChina
25 works
- 2
JakartaIndonesia
24 works
- 3
LondonUnited Kingdom
23 works
- 4
BandungIndonesia
21 works
- 5
TokyoJapan
20 works
- 6
PittsburghUnited States
20 works
- 7
Seoul
South Korea
15 works
- 8
São PauloBrazil
15 works
- 9
New YorkUnited States
14 works
- 10
TorontoCanada
13 works
Where is the best place to study Usability and User Interface Design?
Among universities, judged by research, Carnegie Mellon University, University of Washington and University of California San Diego score highest, combining excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.
One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.
| # | University | Score | Top 10% | Specialisation | Works | Growth |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Carnegie Mellon UniversityUnited States |
81.9 | 19.6% | 27.7× | 18 | +8.9% |
| 2 | University of WashingtonUnited States |
49.9 | 39.3% | 4.9× | 8 | -30.2% |
| 3 | University of California San DiegoUnited States |
47.1 | 11.6% | 6.7× | 10 | +125.8% |
| 4 | Binus UniversityIndonesia |
46.7 | 2.1% | 19.1× | 16 | +396.3% |
| 5 | Telkom UniversityIndonesia |
27.5 | 2.8% | 12.0× | 10 | +313.6% |
| 6 | Universidade Federal do CearáBrazil |
25.7 | 3.2% | 12.5× | 8 | +26.2% |
Universities only. The score blends excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.
Every institution in Usability and User Interface Design, country by countryIs Usability and User Interface Design research growing?
Output in 2022-2025 was 5% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2011.
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Its share of all research
Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Usability and User Interface Design as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.0058% in 2024.
Fractional works of Usability and User Interface Design over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.
How much of it reaches the world top 10%
Year by year.
Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.
Which topics inside it are moving
Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.
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