A qualitative empirical evaluation of design decisions

Zannier, Carmen; Maurer, Frank

doi:10.1145/1082983.1083124

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“…[34] One author team explicitly proposes to contrast 'rational' decision making with 'naturalistic' frameworks and categorizes frameworks including Simon's Bounded Rationality, Prospect Theory, Image Theory, and others [35], [23]. The latter paper conducts interviews to develop an understanding of two modes of decision making characterized as rational and naturalistic.…”

Section: E Which Assumptions On Decision Making Underpin These Studies?mentioning

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Intertemporal Choice: Decision Making and Time in Software Engineering

Becker

Walker

McCord

2017

2017 IEEE/ACM 10th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE)

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Abstract-When making choices in software projects, engineers and other stakeholders engage in decision making that involves uncertain future outcomes. The concept of 'intertemporal choice' describes choices between outcomes at different times in the future. Short-sighted decisions with far-reaching effects are a long-standing cause of concern in the software profession.Common models to support decisions in software projects use concepts such as expected utility and discount factors to quantify future value and enable trade-off decisions. However, a growing body of behavioral research shows that these normative models do not adequately describe how people actually make choices.Our objective is to understand how developers and stakeholders actually take trade-off decisions during software projects that involve current and future benefits, and to identify the human and cooperative factors that influence them. This requires empirical research on decision making in SE with a focus on trade-offs across time. To support such research, this paper reports on a systematic literature review that aimed to identify whether the intersection of these concepts has been acknowledged and addressed. We discuss the assumptions about decision makers that underpin existing research and analyze how the role of time has been characterized in the study of decision making in SE.Based on this review, the paper begins to develop principles for a descriptive framework to characterize intertemporal choices in empirical and behavioral software engineering research.

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Section: E Which Assumptions On Decision Making Underpin These Studies?mentioning

confidence: 99%

Intertemporal Choice: Decision Making and Time in Software Engineering

Becker

Walker

McCord

2017

2017 IEEE/ACM 10th International Workshop on Cooperative and Human Aspects of Software Engineering (CHASE)

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“…We do not seek here to provide a detailed analysis of design rationale cognitive processes as in [32]: we rather provide a case showing how formal models may contribute to the decision process.…”

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Online communities for older users: what can we learn from local community interactions to create social sites that work for older people

Letondal

Pillain

Verdurand

et al. 2014

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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In this work, we seek to understand the needs of interaction designers involved in industrial system engineering processes. While current research offers a set of methods and tools for them, we believe that more empirical user studies focusing on designers are needed, in particular to support how model-based activity analysis may inform their decisions. Our designers' need analysis is conducted through participatory design and contextual inquiry, and applied through a real use-case project: a distributed tactile tool for airborne maritime surveillance. Thanks to this study, we report on our insights on the usability problems and needs related in particular to scenario-based modeling, model-based design rationales and design-based model refinement.Interactive System Design; System Engineering Empirical Studies; Model-based Engineering; Participatory Design; Scenario-based Design; Design Rationales.

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“…Some of the more recent work in the area (e.g. [34]) has started to widen the theoretical base from that used by previous work. This work to date has focused on establishing a theoretical framework from which decision-making in interaction designers can be understood.…”

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Analogies in Design Decision-Making

Hassard¹,

Blandford²,

Cox³

2009

Electronic Workshops in Computing

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Design is becoming the decisive factor in whether a product is a commercial success, like Windows XP, or a critical failure, like Microsoft Bob. To leverage this factor we need to have a greater understanding of the cognitive processes behind Interaction Design. While there are a wide array of disciplines that fall under the umbrella of design, there are several cognitive processes that are common to all strata of design. Decision Making has been identified as an important factor in the design process but remains woefully under-explored. This paper aims to understand Design Decision-making (DDM) in the light of more recent developments in the wider decisionmaking field. Two studies were conducted, consisting of an initial theoretical thematic analysis to update the outdated models of design decision-making, and a follow-up quantitative study to validate the findings of the first study. Results indicate that while the current models of DDM do well to explain elements of the decision-making process they do not account for such things as the persistence of analogies across all stages of the decision-making process.

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A qualitative empirical evaluation of design decisions

Cited by 8 publications

References 32 publications

Intertemporal Choice: Decision Making and Time in Software Engineering

Intertemporal Choice: Decision Making and Time in Software Engineering

Online communities for older users: what can we learn from local community interactions to create social sites that work for older people

Analogies in Design Decision-Making

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