Agile User-Centered Design Applied to a Mobile Multimedia Streaming Application

Mobile computing is leading a revolution. Multimedia consumption oil mobile devices is increasing day by day. The most important factor for the success of such applications is user acceptance. Additionally, the success of a software development project is associated not only with tools and technologies but also depends on how much the development process is both user-centered and developer-oriented. We are working oil a project to develop a multimedia streaming application for mobile phones. The paper describes our adopted development process: the integration of Extreme Programming (XP) - one of the popular agile methods - with User-Centered Design (UCD) and shows how the integrated process facilitates user-orientation and at the same time preserves the social vahies of the development team. The paper also presents a aummary of a recently carried out usability study.