Background and aim - Emerging digital technologies are defining the future of FM. In this process of transformation, stakeholders involved must ensure balanced development. This paper presents the results of an extensive survey on the perception of digital trends in FM. Purpose of the survey was to identify possible awareness gaps between end users...
This thesis looks at the Post Occupancy Evaluation (POE) of office buildings in Saudi Arabia by involving end users through the use of a shortened Quality Function Deployment (QFD) method. The literature reviewed shows that POE studies are severely lacking in Saudi Arabia and that the business culture tends to exclude end users from decision making...
Lack of usability specialists, high resource requirements and developer mindsets are three considerable barriers for introducing usability engineering into software companies. This Ph.D. project explores the effect of letting software developers and end users apply usability engineering methods instead of a specialist, a solution which may reduce t...
