Requirements Prioritization by End-users and Consequences on Design of a Virtual Reality Software - An Exploratory Study

Emilie Loup Escande, Olivier Christmann

2013

Abstract

This paper aims to understand the real contribution of end-users of a virtual reality software to the requirements prioritization step of the software process and to study how this contribution could influence design decisions. In our empirical study, we analyzed the lists of functionalities prioritized on a questionnaire basis and the functionalities evoked spontaneously by users, in the context of the design of a new software. Results show that several priority levels can be associated with a same functionality within a single user profile and that priority levels associated with the same functionality may be common or specific to user profiles. Results also highlight that the additional functionalities proposed by participants are new features or precisions. In conclusion, we present our research perspective which aims to understand how the participants perform the prioritization task.

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Loup Escande E. and Christmann O. (2013). Requirements Prioritization by End-users and Consequences on Design of a Virtual Reality Software - An Exploratory Study . In Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8565-62-4, pages 5-14. DOI: 10.5220/0004397900050014


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@conference{enase13,
author={Emilie Loup Escande and Olivier Christmann},
title={Requirements Prioritization by End-users and Consequences on Design of a Virtual Reality Software - An Exploratory Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2013},
pages={5-14},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004397900050014},
isbn={978-989-8565-62-4},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Requirements Prioritization by End-users and Consequences on Design of a Virtual Reality Software - An Exploratory Study
SN - 978-989-8565-62-4
AU - Loup Escande E.
AU - Christmann O.
PY - 2013
SP - 5
EP - 14
DO - 10.5220/0004397900050014