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This systematic literature review (SLR) examines what factors affect the perceived value of user experience (UX) in organizations. Integrating UX activities into organizational processes and software development is a widely addressed topic in the literature. However, although the social perception of the UX integration process is key for its successful execution, we do not have a concise understanding of this concept. To bridge this gap, we conducted an SLR answering two research questions: 1) What factors influence the perceived value of UX in organizations? and 2) What are the existing tools to measure or evaluate the perceived value of UX? Database search retrieved 49 publications, and we analyzed the content of 14 papers published between 2012 and 2023. The results are divided into six themes, each describing the positive and negative impacts on the perceived value of UX: understanding UX, UX resources, UX culture, perceived UX value, UX management, and UX work organization. Also, we found that the concept of the perceived value of UX is not yet developed in the HCI literature, and no tools have been developed to measure it. Therefore, further research on defining this concept is needed to understand better how social perception of UX affects its integration.
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This research was funded by the Service Public de Wallonie, project UX-DI (grant number 8637) and AISIN Europe. We thank the anonymous reviewers for their comments on improving this paper.
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Amant, L., Rukonić, L., Kieffer, S. (2024). Perceived Value of UX in Organizations: A Systematic Literature Review. In: Marcus, A., Rosenzweig, E., Soares, M.M. (eds) Design, User Experience, and Usability. HCII 2024. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 14714. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-61356-2_12
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