Educational Software Requirements Elicitation Techniques: Including Children with Autistic Spectrum Condition

Lucas Cabral, J. Moura, Marcelo A. de Barros, Laurent Borgmann, Uwe Terton, Carla Medeiros

2022

Abstract

Although specialized literature and software engineering frameworks suggest techniques for elicitation of software requirements, no elicitation technique works for all situations. Challenges arising from end users’ communication disabilities make choosing an adequate technique even more important to identify these users’ usability and accessibility needs and preferences. Children with such disabilities, e.g. Autistic Spectrum Condition (ASC), are particularly challenging. The literature on software requirements elicitation for children with ASC seems particularly scanty. Here, systematic mapping studies of the literature, analyses of some software development frameworks and recommendations from practicing software engineers were considered to create an initial catalogue of elicitation techniques. Specialists on software and autism were then invited to evaluate the applicability of each of the catalogued techniques for children with an ASC. This paper brings results of such evaluation. As such it may assist software requirements engineers in selecting techniques that are more likely to successfully include children with ASCs in the requirements elicitation process. Future work could experiment with such techniques in (educational) software development contexts.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Cabral L., Moura J., A. de Barros M., Borgmann L., Terton U. and Medeiros C. (2022). Educational Software Requirements Elicitation Techniques: Including Children with Autistic Spectrum Condition. In Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU, ISBN 978-989-758-562-3, pages 304-313. DOI: 10.5220/0011078200003182

in Bibtex Style

@conference{csedu22,
author={Lucas Cabral and J. Moura and Marcelo A. de Barros and Laurent Borgmann and Uwe Terton and Carla Medeiros},
title={Educational Software Requirements Elicitation Techniques: Including Children with Autistic Spectrum Condition},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,},
year={2022},
pages={304-313},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011078200003182},
isbn={978-989-758-562-3},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 14th International Conference on Computer Supported Education - Volume 1: CSEDU,
TI - Educational Software Requirements Elicitation Techniques: Including Children with Autistic Spectrum Condition
SN - 978-989-758-562-3
AU - Cabral L.
AU - Moura J.
AU - A. de Barros M.
AU - Borgmann L.
AU - Terton U.
AU - Medeiros C.
PY - 2022
SP - 304
EP - 313
DO - 10.5220/0011078200003182