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From Description to Requirements: An Activity Theoretic Perspective

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1999

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Proceedings of the 1999 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work

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Association for Computing Machinery

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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.

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Turner, Phil; Turner, Susan; Horton, Julie (1999): From Description to Requirements: An Activity Theoretic Perspective. Proceedings of the 1999 ACM International Conference on Supporting Group Work. DOI: 10.1145/320297.320331. New York, NY, USA: Association for Computing Machinery. pp. 286–295. Phoenix, Arizona, USA

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activity theory , contextual analysis , requirements , ethnography , WWW

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10.1145/320297.320331

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