A requirements engineering method designed for the blind

Authors:
Tuure Tuunanen;Ken Peffers;Simeon Hebler
Affiliations:
Department of Information Processing Science, University of Oulu, Finland;MIS Department, College of Business, University of Nevada Las Vegas, Las Vegas;Deloite, Magnusstrasse, Köln, Germany
Venue:
DESRIST'10 Proceedings of the 5th international conference on Global Perspectives on Design Science Research
Year:
2010

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Abstract

This paper motivates, designs and demonstrates a method for requirements engineering (RE) with blind users We motivate the need for the method by pointing out that, although much has been done to accommodate blind users' accessibility to systems, little formal research has addressed the need to include members of this large and growing population in RE activities We develop objectives for a method to address three problems that potentially affect such participation We design a method to address each of the problems We demonstrate its use in a RE effort among users in New Zealand and Germany to develop requirements for mobile service applications and features for blind users and validate its use in a follow-up survey Our theoretical evaluation of the process shows that we were able meet most of the objectives for a blind user RE method The proposed method should be a beginning for research efforts.