User Centred Requirements For Software Engineering Environments

Author : David J. Gilmore,Russel L. Winder,Francoise Detienne
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662030356

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User-Centred Requirements for Software Engineering Environments by David J. Gilmore,Russel L. Winder,Francoise Detienne Pdf

The idea for this workshop originated when I came across and read Martin Zelkowitz's book on Requirements for Software Engineering Environments (the proceedings of a small workshop held at the University of Maryland in 1986). Although stimulated by the book I was also disappointed in that it didn't adequately address two important questions - "Whose requirements are these?" and "Will the environment which meets all these requirements be usable by software engineers?". And thus was the decision made to organise this workshop which would explicitly address these two questions. As time went by setting things up, it became clear that our workshop would happen more than five years after the Maryland workshop and thus, at the same time as addressing the two questions above, this workshop would attempt to update the Zelkowitz approach. Hence the workshop acquired two halves, one dominated by discussion of what we already know about usability problems in software engineering and the other by discussion of existing solutions (technical and otherwise) to these problems. This scheme also provided a good format for bringing together those in the HeI community concerned with the human factors of software engineering and those building tools to solve acknowledged, but rarely understood problems.

Author : Alistair Sutcliffe
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781447102175

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User-Centred Requirements Engineering by Alistair Sutcliffe Pdf

If you have picked up this book and are browsing the Preface, you may well be asking yourself"What makes this book different from the large number I can find on amazon. com?". Well, the answer is a blend of the academic and the practical, and views of the subject you won't get from anybody else: how psychology and linguistics influence the field of requirements engineering (RE). The title might seem to be a bit of a conundrum; after all, surely requirements come from people so all requirements should be user-centred. Sadly, that is not always so; many system disasters have been caused simply because requirements engineering was not user-centred or, worse still, was not practised at all. So this book is about putting the people back into com puting, although not simply from the HCI (human-computer interaction) sense; instead, the focus is on how to understand what people want and then build appropriate computer systems.

Author : Pankaj K. Garg,Mehdi Jazayeri
Publisher : Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers(IEEE)
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Software engineering
ISBN : UOM:39076001646806

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Process-centered Software Engineering Environments by Pankaj K. Garg,Mehdi Jazayeri Pdf

Process-Centered Software Engineering Environments (PSEEs) represent a new generation of software engineering environments in which the processes used to produce and maintain software products are explicitly modeled in the environment. PSEEs hold the exciting promise of enabling a significant increase in both software productivity and quality. The book presents a comprehensive picture of this emerging technology while highlighting the key concepts and issues. The first chapter introduces some of the basic concepts and developments behind PSEEs and discusses the unifying role it plays in combining project management, software engineering, and process engineering. The second chapter reviews related process modeling and representation concepts, terminology, and issues. Chapter 3 analyzes the features of some example PSEEs and Chapter 4 takes an inside look at the implementation of these features by describing specific design choices made by researchers. The last chapter discusses the evolution of PSEEs to accommodate practical issues in actual work settings and to play a more significant role in the software life cycle. The text is a collection of influential papers that will bring the newcomer quickly up to speed on this fast-moving field. For the researcher, the issues described in the text present a challenge to be conquered and directions to pursue. For the practitioner, they represent benefits that may be gained in the application of PSEEs in the work environment.

Author : Klaus Pohl
Publisher : Taylor & Francis Group
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015038547553

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Process-centered Requirements Engineering by Klaus Pohl Pdf

Author : Robert N. Charette
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015011836429

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Software Engineering Environments by Robert N. Charette Pdf

Author : Stefan Sauer,Cristian Bogdan,Peter Forbrig,Regina Bernhaupt,Marco Winckler
Publisher : Springer
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2014-09-02
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662448113

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Human-Centered Software Engineering by Stefan Sauer,Cristian Bogdan,Peter Forbrig,Regina Bernhaupt,Marco Winckler Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th IFIP WG 13.2 International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, HCSE 2014, held in Paderborn, Germany, in September 2014. The 13 full papers and 10 short papers presented together with one keynote were carefully reviewed and selected from 35 submissions. The papers cover various topics such as integration of software engineering and user-centered design; HCI models and model-driven engineering; incorporating guidelines and principles for designing usable products in the development process; usability engineering; methods for user interface design; patterns in HCI and HCSE; software architectures for user interfaces; user interfaces for special environments; representations for design in the development process; working with iterative and agile process models in HCSE; social and organizational aspects in the software development lifecycle; human-centric software development tools; user profiles and mental models; user requirements and design constraints; and user experience and software design.

Author : Michael Richter,Markus Flückiger
Publisher : Springer
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783662439890

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User-Centred Engineering by Michael Richter,Markus Flückiger Pdf

A new product can be easy or difficult to use, it can be efficient or cumbersome, engaging or dispiriting, it can support the way we work and think - or not. What options are available for systematically addressing such parameters and provide users with an appropriate functionality, usability and experience? In the last decades, several fields have evolved that encompass a user-centred approach to create better products for the people who use them. This book provides a comprehensible introduction to the subject. It is aimed first and foremost at people involved in software and product development – product managers, project managers, consultants and analysts, who face the major challenge of developing highly useful and usable products. Topics include: The most important user-centred techniques and their alignment in the development process Planning examples of user-centred activities for projects User-oriented approaches for organisations Real-life case studies Checklists, tips and a lot of background information provide help for practitioners

Author : Ian Smith
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 518 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1998-07-15
Category : Computers
ISBN : 3540648062

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Artificial Intelligence in Structural Engineering by Ian Smith Pdf

This book presents the state of the art of artificial intelligence techniques applied to structural engineering. The 28 revised full papers by leading scientists were solicited for presentation at a meeting held in Ascona, Switzerland, in July 1998. The recent advances in information technology, in particular decreasing hardware cost, Internet communication, faster computation, increased bandwidth, etc., allow for the application of new AI techniques to structural engineering. The papers presented deal with new aspects of information technology support for the design, analysis, monitoring, control and diagnosis of various structural engineering systems.

Author : Ahmed Seffah,Jean Vanderdonckt,Michel C. Desmarais
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 409 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2009-06-19
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781848009073

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Human-Centered Software Engineering by Ahmed Seffah,Jean Vanderdonckt,Michel C. Desmarais Pdf

Activity theory is a way of describing and characterizing the structure of human - tivity of all kinds. First introduced by Russian psychologists Rubinshtein, Leontiev, and Vigotsky in the early part of the last century, activity theory has more recently gained increasing attention among interaction designers and others in the hum- computer interaction and usability communities (see, for example, Gay and H- brooke, 2004). Interest was given a signi?cant boost when Donald Norman suggested activity-theory and activity-centered design as antidotes to some of the putative ills of “human-centered design” (Norman, 2005). Norman, who has been credited with coining the phrase “user-centered design,” suggested that too much attention focused on human users may be harmful, that to design better tools designers need to focus not so much on users as on the activities in which users are engaged and the tasks they seek to perform within those activities. Although many researchers and practitioners claim to have used or been in?uenced by activity theory in their work (see, for example, Nardi, 1996), it is often dif?cult to trace precisely where or how the results have actually been shaped by activity theory. Inmanycases, evendetailedcasestudiesreportresultsthatseemonlydistantlyrelated, if at all, to the use of activity theory. Contributing to the lack of precise and traceable impact is that activity theory, - spite its name, is not truly a formal and proper theory.

Author : Zhi Jin
Publisher : Morgan Kaufmann
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2017-12-14
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9780128019573

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Environment Modeling-Based Requirements Engineering for Software Intensive Systems by Zhi Jin Pdf

Environment Modeling-Based Requirements Engineering for Software Intensive Systems provides a new and promising approach for engineering the requirements of software-intensive systems, presenting a systematic, promising approach to identifying, clarifying, modeling, deriving, and validating the requirements of software-intensive systems from well-modeled environment simulations. In addition, the book presents a new view of software capability, i.e. the effect-based software capability in terms of environment modeling. Provides novel and systematic methodologies for engineering the requirements of software-intensive systems Describes ontologies and easily-understandable notations for modeling software-intensive systems Analyzes the functional and non-functional requirements based on the properties of the software surroundings Provides an essential, practical guide and formalization tools for the task of identifying the requirements of software-intensive systems Gives system analysts and requirements engineers insight into how to recognize and structure the problems of developing software-intensive systems

Author : Ahmed Seffah,Eduard Metzker
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2008-10-08
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9781848000193

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Adoption-centric Usability Engineering by Ahmed Seffah,Eduard Metzker Pdf

Developing software systems which are easy to use while simultaneously increasing the productivity, performance and satisfaction of users is still a major challenge in software engineering. Thus a large number of usability engineering methods have been proposed to systematically develop software with high usability. A large number of studies indicate that even basic usability engineering methods are not integrated in software development lifecycles practiced in industrial settings. Yet problems in the adoption of methods by project teams are rarely examined. This book provides a new perspective on the integration and adoption of usability engineering methods by software development teams. The adoption of methods by project teams – contrary to popular belief – is not assured just because it is mandated by the organization. This work argues that usability engineering methods can only be regarded as integrated in the software development process of an organization when these methods are practiced and accepted by development teams. So far no frameworks for examining the acceptance of methods by project teams and for exploiting such data for guiding project teams in method deployment are available. To address this problem, this book presents an approach which consists of a process meta-model for guiding project teams in the deployment of usability en- neering methods and a measurement framework for measuring the acceptance of the deployed methods. The approach is called Adoption-Centric Usability Engineering.

Author : Cristian Bogdan,Jan Gulliksen,Stefan Sauer,Peter Forbrig,Marco Winckler,Chris Johnson,Philippe Palanque,Regina Bernhaupt,Filip Kis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 383 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2016-08-22
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783319449029

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Human-Centered and Error-Resilient Systems Development by Cristian Bogdan,Jan Gulliksen,Stefan Sauer,Peter Forbrig,Marco Winckler,Chris Johnson,Philippe Palanque,Regina Bernhaupt,Filip Kis Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the IFIP WG 13.2/13.5 Joint Working Conferences: 6th International Conference on Human-Centered Software Engineering, HCSE 2016, and 8th International Conference on Human Error, Safety, and System Development, HESSD 2016, held in Stockholm, Sweden, in August 2016. The 11 full papers and 14 short papers presented were carefully reviewed and selected from 32 submissions. The papers cover various topics such as integration of software engineering and user-centered design; HCI models and model-driven engineering; incorporating guidelines and principles for designing usable products in the development process; usability engineering; methods for user interface design; patterns in HCI and HCSE; software architectures for user interfaces; user interfaces for special environments; representations for design in the development process; working with iterative and agile process models in HCSE; social and organizational aspects in the software development lifecycle; human-centric software development tools; user profiles and mental models; user requirements and design constraints; and user experience and software design.

Author : Karen L. McGraw,Karan Harbison
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 380 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : System analysis
ISBN : OCLC:699799853

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User-centered Requirements by Karen L. McGraw,Karan Harbison Pdf

Author : Regina Bernhaupt,Peter Forbrig,Jan Gulliksen,Marta Kristín Lárusdóttir
Publisher : Springer
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Computers
ISBN : 9783642164880

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Human-Centred Software Engineering by Regina Bernhaupt,Peter Forbrig,Jan Gulliksen,Marta Kristín Lárusdóttir Pdf

The conference series HCSE (Human-Centred Software Engineering) was established four years ago in Salamanca. HCSE 2010 is the third working conference of IFIP Working Group 13.2, Methodologies for User-Centered Systems Design. The goal of HCSE is to bring together researchers and practitioners interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of user interface design, examining the re- tionship between software engineering and human-computer interaction and focusing on how to strengthen user-centered design as an essential part of software engineering processes. As a working conference, substantial time was devoted to the open and lively discussion of papers. The interest in the conference was positive in terms of submissions and partici- tion. We received 42 contributions that resulted in 10 long papers, 5 short papers and 3 poster papers. The selection was carried out carefully by the International Program Committee. The result is a set of interesting and stimulating papers that address such important issues as contextual design, user-aware systems, ubiquitous environments and usability evaluation. The final program of the conference included a keynote by Liam Bannon with the title “Approaches to Software Engineering: A Human-Centred Perspective.” This talk raised a lot of interesting questions for IFIP WG 13.2 and might have had some - pact for participants to become a member of the working group. We hope that participants considered HCSE 2010 as successful as its two p- desessors in terms of interesting discussions and new ideas for scientific co-operation.

Author : Fred Long,Frederick W. Long
Publisher : Springer
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Computers
ISBN : UCAL:B4340310

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Software Engineering Environments by Fred Long,Frederick W. Long Pdf

"This volume gives the proceedings of an international workshop on software engineering environments and public tool interfaces. The workshop drew together the recognized experts in these fields from Europe and America. The workshop examined the mechanisms necessary to support the software process and some formalisms for software modeling and considered which mechanisms and capabilities are feasible in the short term. Important here are the communication and coordination requirements of teams of people, especially information flow and access issues and the characterization of project and organization structure that interact with these. Some recent work on "long" transactions is included here. There was discussion of how tools obtain access to services provided by other tools in the environment and how they communicate and exchange information. The workshop considered the trade-off between ease of interoperability and the modification of existing tools. Data typing and structuring models present a significant challenge. Included here is the experience of using actual models and an analysis of "persistence". The users of an environment may act in various roles and the needs of each type of user vary. Discussions centered on designs of environment mechanisms to support the user interface, including the issues of uniformity and performance."--PUBLISHER'S WEBSITE.