CORE-MOSOSO · Contextual Requirements Elicitation for Mobile Social Software
FP7 — People (Marie Curie Actions)
- Duration
- 2009-05-18 → 2010-07-17
- EU contribution
- €97,147
- Participants
- 1
- Scheme
- MC-IEF
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Results in brief
Contextual requirements elicitation for mobile social software
Social software such as Facebook is an exciting and important phenomenon in today's software and business world. It is weaving into the fabric of daily life faster than expected and has a major influence on communication and cooperation within social networks and groups. The widespread use of social software triggers new research and application challenges as well as new opportunities. In addition to a new degree of digitalisation with regard to human contacts, the growing use of social software on mobile devices (e.g. cell phones) also creates a need for adaptation in software development. Research on social software engineering is particularly relevant for disciplines such as requirements engineering (RE) that address design factors critical to the success of mobile social applications. Within the Marie EU's People / Marie Curie Programme (Intra- European Fellowship), at the Centre for HCI Design, Norbert Seyff was investigating new methods and tools which would influence the successful planning, development and subsequent utilisation of mobile social software. The output of this project is iRequire, a tool-supported requirements discovery method for mobile social software. System end-users can document their own needs allowing these to flow into further software development. The tool-supported method considers recent trends in social software including mobility, location-awareness and service-centric system design. More specifically, this newly developed tool makes use of context sensing capabilities provided by modern mobile devices (e.g. detection of location). It supports the on-site identification of contextual information and can be used to inform and enrich requirements discovery. For example, this information can be used to enrich scenario-based requirements elicitation workshops by providing more domain specific knowledge and context-information to participants. It is envisioned that, in the future, tools for on-site requirements and context elicitation will be used in several disciplines. The developed tool generally allows users to document needs, something not solely relevant to the field of mobile social software. We plan to concentrate on the exploration of the tool's potential for uses in business process reengineering activities.
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Project objective
The proposed research is in the field of requirements engineering (RE) and supports requirements discovery for mobile social software - an emerging and exciting phenomenon in today’s software and business world. Social software is currently weaving into the fabric of daily life faster than expected and enables its users to communicate, interact, and share data with other individuals. Two famous examples of social software include Facebook and YouTube. Emerging trends within social software include: the provision of social software for mobile devices, the integration of location-based services into social software, and the integration of social software and service-centric systems. Addressing these trends and the unique nature of mobile social software will require manifold research on mobile social software engineering. The goal of the proposed project is to develop and evaluate a tool-supported requirements discovery method tailored to the needs of mobile social software. It is planned that this method will support analysts in thoroughly understanding the needs of social communities and the patterns of communication and interaction within social networks. Firstly, this method will support on-site analysts in identifying and modelling social context information relevant to early design processes in addition to gathering system requirements. Secondly, the envisioned method will make use of the contextual information to enrich requirements discovery. It is expected that such context-enriched discovery will enable analysts to gather more and more accurate requirements for mobile social software systems. The proposed research will be conducted at the Centre for Human Computer Interaction Design at the City University London, a world-leading institution in the field of RE and socio-technical systems engineering. The proposed fellowship will allow the applicant to continue his research and will support him to get a permanent position at a European research institution.
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Participants
- CITY ST GEORGES UNIVERSITY OF LONDON · LONDONCoordinatorUnited Kingdom
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