From description to requirements: an activity theoretic perspective

Authors:
Phil Turner;Susan Turner;Julie Horton
Affiliations:
School of Computing, Napier University, Edinburgh, Scotland;-;Department of Computing and Mathematics, University of Northumbria at Newcastle, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, England
Venue:
GROUP '99 Proceedings of the international ACM SIGGROUP conference on Supporting group work
Year:
1999

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Abstract

This paper demonstrates how activity theoretic concepts can be used in conjunction with an ethnographically informed approach to derive requirements on a work situation. We present a case study based on a series of collaborative design episodes, the structured description derived from it and show how a preliminary set of contextually-grounded requirements on supporting the design process can be created.