Effective integration of task-based modeling and object-oriented specifications

  • Authors:
  • Anke Dittmar;Ashraf Gaffar

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Rostock;Concordia University, Montreal

  • Venue:
  • HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: interaction design and usability
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

This paper proposes an integration of task modeling and object-oriented analysis approaches. We argue that task-based approaches are more appropriate to analyze existing working situations and to elicit user needs. In subsequent stages like design and implementation, an object-oriented approach is warranted since most of the developer's skills, techniques, and tools are better matched to object-oriented representations. We show that such amalgamation, when supported by systematic transformation from a goal- and action-oriented perspective to "thinking in objects", can have several advantages for both approaches.