Title
Identifying Groupware Requirements in People-Driven Mobile Collaborative Processes.
Abstract
People-driven mobile collaborative processes are increasingly mediated by technology due to the ubiquity, efficiency and flexibility that modern groupware systems provide their users. However, identifying groupware requirements to be considered in their development is a challenging task, since the processes being supported by them do not have a clear workflow coordinating the activities performed by the participants. Thus, software developers must usually guess these requirements based on their own experience, and so the elicitation process becomes a creative activity instead of an engineering process. Trying to reduce this uncertainty about groupware requirements identification, and thus helping developers improve their capability to predict the suitability of a collaborative system, this paper presents a visual notation to represent user interaction scenarios through models. These models are processed to automatically determine a set of potentially required groupware services. Thus, this proposal reduces the uncertainty about the groupware requirements to be considered in the development of a system supporting a particular people-driven mobile collaborative process. The usability and usefulness of the visual notation and the method to derive the groupware requirements are illustrated with a running example, and also through its application to a case study. The results are encouraging and consistent, allowing us to augur potential adoption in research and industrial settings.
Year
Venue
Keywords
2019
JOURNAL OF UNIVERSAL COMPUTER SCIENCE
People-driven mobile collaborative processes,groupware requirements,visual modeling notation,mobile ad hoc collaborative systems,software development
Field
DocType
Volume
Computer science,Collaborative software,Knowledge management
Journal
25
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
8
0948-695X
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
0
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Valeria Herskovic122423.12
Sergio F. Ochoa282393.70
José A. Pino378289.55