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An Application Of The 5-S Activity Theoretic Requirements Method, Robert Brown, Peter Hyland, Ian Piper

Dr Ian Piper

One of the most crucial aspects of highly interactive, multi-user, organisational systems is the interface. The Human Computer Interaction (HCI) community has not adopted rigorous Formal Methods with open arms (Paterno, 1996). However, the HCI community has widely adopted Usability Engineering approaches (Corporate Solutions 2006), such as Nielsen’s (1994), which offers considerable formality. There remains, however, scope for user interface (UI) design to adopt a theoretical framework to enhance consistency across the whole design and development lifecycle. A theoretically-consistent framework from initial conceptual elicitation to evaluation of the finished product may prove useful. Since the aim of UI design is …