Final Report Summary - CORE-MOSOSO (Contextual requirements elicitation for mobile social software)
Within the Marie EU's People / Marie Curie Programme (Intra- European Fellowship), at the Centre for HCI Design, Norbert Seyff was investigating new methods and tools which would influence the successful planning, development and subsequent utilisation of mobile social software. The output of this project is iRequire, a tool-supported requirements discovery method for mobile social software. System end-users can document their own needs allowing these to flow into further software development. The tool-supported method considers recent trends in social software including mobility, location-awareness and service-centric system design. More specifically, this newly developed tool makes use of context sensing capabilities provided by modern mobile devices (e.g. detection of location). It supports the on-site identification of contextual information and can be used to inform and enrich requirements discovery. For example, this information can be used to enrich scenario-based requirements elicitation workshops by providing more domain specific knowledge and context-information to participants.
It is envisioned that, in the future, tools for on-site requirements and context elicitation will be used in several disciplines. The developed tool generally allows users to document needs, something not solely relevant to the field of mobile social software. We plan to concentrate on the exploration of the tool's potential for uses in business process reengineering activities.