Requirements Engineering

ABSTRACT:The use of Geographic Information or GI, has grown rapidly in recent years. Previous research has identified the importance of usability and user centred design in enabling the proliferation and exploitation of GI. However, the design and development of usable GI is not simply a matter of applying the tried and tested usability methods that have been developed for software and web design. Dealing with data and specifically GI brings with it a number of issues that change the way usability and user centred design can be applied. This paper describes the outcomes of a workshop held in March 2010 exploring the core issues relating to GI usability. The workshop brought together an international group of twenty experts in both human factors and GI, from a wide range of academic and industrial backgrounds. These experts considered three key issues, the stakeholders in GI, key challenges applying usability to GI and the usability methods that can be successfully applied to GI. The result of this workshop was to identify some areas for future research, such as the production of meaningful metadata and the implications of blurring of the line between data producers and data consumers.

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“…User interviews (Macaulay, 1996) Interviews are conducted talking to the user, either face-to-face or on the telephone.…”

Section: Methods / Approaches To Design Usable Gimentioning

confidence: 99%

Usability of Geographic Information: Current challenges and future directions

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“…Successful requirements specification can be considered to be an art or a skill honed from a great deal of experience (Loucopoulos and Karakostas 1995;Macaulay 1996;Sommerville and Sawyer 1997).…”

Section: Cognitive Processes In the Require-ments Engineering Processmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Also, the RE process is fundamentally a social process involving two main groups: the users/clients and the professional consultants (Urquhart, 1998, Loucopoulos and Karakostas, 1995, Macaulay, 1996 and this social process requires understanding by all parties to reach agreement. The facilitation of understanding and agreement requires creative modelling skills on the part on the analyst to produce understandable usable models.…”

Section: Cognitive Mental Modellingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cognitive Processes in Object-Oriented Requirements Engineering Practice: Analogical Reasoning and Mental Modelling

Dawson

2013

Information Systems Development

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This chapter presents a background in cognitive processes such as problem-solving and analogical reasoning for considering modelling from an object-oriented perspective within the domain of requirements engineering. This chapter then describes a research project and the findings from a set of four cases which examine professional practice from perspective of cognitive modelling for object-oriented requirements engineering. In these studies, it was found that the analysts routinely built models in their minds and refined them before committing them to paper or communicating these models to others. The studies also showed that object-oriented analysts depend on analogical reasoning where they use past experience and abstraction to address problems in requirements specification. AbstractThis paper presents a background in cognitive processes such as problem solving and analogical reasoning for considering modeling from an object-oriented perspective within the domain of requirements engineering. The paper then describes a research project and the findings from a set of four cases which examine professional practice from perspective of cognitive modeling for object-oriented requirements engineering. In these studies, it was found that the analysts routinely built models in their minds and refined them before committing them to paper or communicating these models to others. The studies also showed that objectoriented analysts depend on analogical reasoning where they use past experience and abstraction to address problems in requirements specification.

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“…Few methods have emerged to analyse socio-technical system requirements, even though many problems in requirements engineering are known to have their origins in complex social problems [1], [2]. Ethnographic techniques have been applied to gather data on social issues and requirements do emerge from this process [3].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Analytic guidance has been given in the stakeholder analysis methods (e.g. [1]), which advise modelling requirements according to different user categories or viewpoints. A key problem in socio technical systems is how to structure and manage relationships between organisational units.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Linking Business Modelling to Socio-technical System Design

Sutcliffe¹,

Minocha

1999

Notes on Numerical Fluid Mechanics and Multidisciplinary Design

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Few methods address analysis of socio-technical system requirements. This paper describes a method for analysing dependencies between computer systems and users/stakeholders in the operational environment. Domain scenarios describing the system and its context are used to create an environment model based on the i* notation. A method is proposed to define business organisational relationships, according to the coupling between agents determined by types of event flows between them, and secondly, by operationalising transaction cost theory to obtain an a priori view of relationships according to the market context for a client and supplier. Coupling metrics are applied to assess the degree of dependencies between the system and the users. High-level requirements are suggested to deal with different types of organisational design. The method is illustrated with a case study of a service engineer support system.

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Requirements Engineering

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Usability of Geographic Information: Current challenges and future directions

Usability of Geographic Information: Current challenges and future directions

Cognitive Processes in Object-Oriented Requirements Engineering Practice: Analogical Reasoning and Mental Modelling

Linking Business Modelling to Socio-technical System Design

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