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Topics for surveys and assignments Finding requirements for leisure services 13.9.2005

[email protected], [email protected]&RG – Product Modelling and Realisation Group

Laboratory of Information Processing ScienceDepartment of Computer Science and Engineering

Helsinki University of TechnologyP.O.Box 5400, FIN-02015 HUT, Finland



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Assigment



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Assignments

• About 3 persons per group• Applying the knowledge of methods gathered in the literature

survey phase• Task is to gather requirements for a service for a mobile or

ubicomp community– The requirements must be defined in such detail that that they can be

forwarded to programmers for implementation• Potential user groups are existing and future mobile and

ubicomp communities like teenagers, sports club, bikers, birdwatchers, cinema club ...



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Assignments

• Each group applies selects a specific method for capturing therequirements from users or customers.– First phase: study the user group and its needs with a specific method

like hobbyism, contextual inquiry, variety of user-centred methods etc.– Second phase: Refine the results of the first phase by the requirements

engineering methods– In your plan and your report you must define the process and specific

methods completely. This is only a skeleton.

• In the seminar assignment www pagehttp://www2.cs.hut.fi/~pmrg/index.cgi?id=206 there will beinstructions



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Topics for the assignments

• Swimmers• Home entertainment and automation• Kyudo archery• Music community mikseri.net• Other topics



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Topic: Swimmers

• Target group– Semi-pro swimmers– Katja Koivu can arrange connection with the group

• Potential method– Hobbyism (requires participation of Katja Koivu)

• Initial input– Training database for the coach.– Pulse counter could upload information to the database.– Also swimming trip meters and pedometers could be used.– Training information could be put to wrist computer and various kinds

of graphs could be used to illustrated the results of the training.



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Topic: Home entertainment and automation

• Target group– Home entertainment network enthusiasts– Ilkka Pirttimaa has volunteered to the target group

• Potential method– Contextual design

• Initial input– a nifty little home entertainment network based on modularity, open

source– contextual interview about their seriously cutting edge, innovative and

just nifty home entertainment networks connecting cars and toasters,doorbells and the television

– requires participation of Robin Lauren



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Topic: Kyudo archery

• Target group– Archers– Hannu H. Kari could provide access to his kyudo club

• Potential method– Contextual inquiry

• Initial input– The kyudo archers have cross-country competitions, in which they go to

e.g. forest or some other place to compete in marksmanship.– Neither the competitors nor the audience cannot get intermediate scores

during the competition.– In addition to the scores, also how the competitors shoot and what else

happens in the competition would be interesting and bring additionalexcitement.



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Topic: Music community mikseri.net

• Target group– Music community– Tomi Saarinen could provide contact to the user group

• Potential method– Hobbyism (requires participation of Tomi) or contextual

inquiry• Initial input

– Services for users of http://www.mikseri.net



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Topic:

• Target group

• Potential method

• Initial input

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Assignment schedule

DL: Forming the group20.9.

DL: Final report v1.031.12.Presentations in the final event20.12.

DL: Final version of the presentation for the final eventDL: Final report v0.9

13.12.

Presentations of preliminary resultsDL: Final report v0.5

29.11.

Presentations of the assignment plansDL: assignment plans

8.11.DL: Group assignment topic application4.10.

Introduction of the assignment topics13.9.

NOTICE: Always check the timetable www page http://www2.cs.hut.fi/~pmrg/index.cgi?id=205.The dates presented here are subject to change.



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Literature survey



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Literature survey

• Every group makes a literature survey on a topic that is relatedto assignment

• The survey gives a background and necessary skills for theassignments.

• Based on books, scientific journals, conference articles, andmaybe on good and reliable web sources

• Follows the form of academic publication– Abstract, Introduction, Background, [Content], Conclusions, References

• More information:http://www2.cs.hut.fi/~pmrg/index.cgi?id=209



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Schedule for the literature survey

• The topics are chosen on 20.9.2005– PM&RG proposes potential topics– Students may propose own topics

• Checkpoints for the literature survey– 11.10. Submission of a draft version of the literature survey– 25.10. Submission of the final literature survey– 1.11. Presentation of the literature survey

• The survey has to be finished, reviewed and accepted byPM&RG before the group can continue to next phase



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Literature survey topics

• Choose one of the following– Hobbyism for gathering user needs– Contextual inquiry for gathering user needs– User-centred methods for finding user needs

• Then combine your selection with– Requirements engineering

• Research how to obtain information about the needs of theusers by a methodology you selected in the first part. Thenresearch how to generate requirements from that information.Write a literature survey on the methods, their relation andconclude how to combine them.



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Sources for the literature study

• Sources for the each approach are proposed in thefollowing

• You may search additional references or proposereplacements



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• User-centred analysis of needs– Sari Kujala's homepage http://www.soberit.hut.fi/%7Eskujala/– Redish, J. and Wixon, J. (2003). Task analysis. In J. A. Jacko and A.

Sears (Eds.) The human-computer interaction handbook: fundamentals,evolving technologies, and emerging applications. Mahwah, N.J.:Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, pp. 922-940.

– Hackos, J. and Redish, J. (1998). User and Task Analysis for InterfaceDesign. New York: John Wiley & Sons.

– Material of course T-76.5615 Requirements engineering• http://www.soberit.hut.fi/T-76.652/indexFI.html• http://www.soberit.hut.fi/T-76.652/suomi/kurssimateriaali_kurssi.doc



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• Contextual inquiry– Beyer, Holtzblatt, Contextual design : defining customer-

centered systems, ISBN 1-55860-411-1, part 1• Hobbyism

– Kotro Tanja, Hobbyist Knowing in Product Development,Desirable Objects and Passion for Sports in SuuntoCorporation, 206 p, 2005, ISBN:951-558-168-0



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• Requirements engineering– Kotonya G. and I. Sommerville, Requirements Engineering,

Processes and Techniques, John Wiley & Sons, 1998.– Robertson Suzanne and James, Mastering the Requirements

Process, Addison-Wesley, 1999– Sommerville I. and P. Sawyer, Requirements Engineering:

A Good Practice Guide, John Wiley & Sons Ltd., 1997.



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Further

• DENZIN N K & LINCOLN Y S: HANDBOOK OFQUALITATIVE RESEARCH



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NOTICE

• Always check the www pages for details– home page: http://www2.cs.hut.fi/~pmrg/index.cgi?id=163– timetable: http://www2.cs.hut.fi/~pmrg/index.cgi?id=205

• The dates presented in powerpoints are subject tochange.

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