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Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

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Eliciting And Specifying Requirements For Highly Interactive Systems Using Activity Theory, Robert B. K. Brown, Peter Hyland, Ian C. Piper Jan 2005

Eliciting And Specifying Requirements For Highly Interactive Systems Using Activity Theory, Robert B. K. Brown, Peter Hyland, Ian C. Piper

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

The processes of eliciting user requirements and formalising these into specifications are critical for the success of highly interactive systems. These processes are still poorly understood, partly because current methods are usually ad hoc and lack any theoretical basis. A number of researchers have used Activity Theory (AT) to refine these processes and have met with some success. To date, this approach has been more useful explaining the processes post hoc. This positional paper proposes an AT method for requirement elicitation and specification definition. The method is sufficiently prescriptive and well formed that it does not require any detailed understanding …


Some Analytical Solutions For Problems Involving Highly Frictional Granular Materials, Ngamta Thamwattana Jan 2005

Some Analytical Solutions For Problems Involving Highly Frictional Granular Materials, Ngamta Thamwattana

Faculty of Engineering and Information Sciences - Papers: Part A

Published abstract of thesis submitted to The University of Wollongong, August 2004. Full thesis can be found at http://ro.uow.edu.au/theses/239.