TY - GEN
T1 - Integrating ethnography into the requirements engineering process
AU - Sommerville, Ian
AU - Rodden, Tom
AU - Sawyer, Pete
AU - Bentley, Richard
AU - Twidale, Michael
N1 - Funding Information:
The work described here has been funded by the UK Joint Research Council Initiative in Cognitive Science and HCI. Thanks are due to our collaborators in the Department of sociology namely John Hughes, Dan Shapiro, Dave Randall and Val Kyng.
Publisher Copyright:
© 1993 Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering. All rights reserved.
PY - 1993
Y1 - 1993
N2 - This paper reports on experiences of an interdisciplinary project involving software engineers and sociologists. The project is concerned with discovering the requirements for a user interface to a flight database which is used to provide real-time information to air traffic controllers. The sociologists are conducting an ethnographic analysis of the activity of air traffic control and this is being used to inform the development of a prototype system. The paper gives an overview of the project, discusses how sociologists can contribute to requirements engineering and suggests tool support which will allow ethnographic observations to be integrated into the requirements engineering process.
AB - This paper reports on experiences of an interdisciplinary project involving software engineers and sociologists. The project is concerned with discovering the requirements for a user interface to a flight database which is used to provide real-time information to air traffic controllers. The sociologists are conducting an ethnographic analysis of the activity of air traffic control and this is being used to inform the development of a prototype system. The paper gives an overview of the project, discusses how sociologists can contribute to requirements engineering and suggests tool support which will allow ethnographic observations to be integrated into the requirements engineering process.
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U2 - 10.1109/ISRE.1993.324821
DO - 10.1109/ISRE.1993.324821
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84992720161
T3 - Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Requirements Engineering
SP - 165
EP - 173
BT - Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering, ISRE 1993
PB - IEEE Computer Society
T2 - 1993 IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering, ISRE 1993
Y2 - 6 January 1993
ER -