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An Industrial Approach to Work Analysis and Software Design
A one-day Workshop
29 April 1999, Lancaster UniversityThe workshop programme and position papers are now available.
The last decade has seen considerable research that has been concerned with the use of methods and techniques for social analysis to support software specification and design. This has seen the acceptance of social science techniques in the HCI and CSCW research communities but a major challenge remains in integrating this approach with more mainstream software development. Some considerable work remains to be done in order to allow social science approaches to understanding activities and work to be accepted and used in the wider software industry.
This workshop will focus on the integration of these approaches with other software engineering methods and how they move from the existing usage within different research communities to become accepted by the software industry as a whole. To address this challenge we wish to draw upon the general experience of those involved in social science studies for software development to consider techniques that can be applied by engineers and business analysts rather than researchers or social scientists.
This workshop will focus on the experiences of those involved in using studies of work to inform software development from a research, practitioner and industrial perspective. We invite contributions on a number of specific topics:
- Methods and techniques to promote and support the use of studies of work by software developers.
- Experiences of undertaking studies of work within the context of real world software development
- Expectations and experiences of software engineers who have been exposed to social science approaches
- Experiences of User Groups who have been subject to studies as part of software development.
- Software development techniques informed by social science approaches.
Accepted authors will be invited to produce extended papers based on their presentations at the workshop for fuller publication at a later date.
Deadlines:
| Receipt of Abstracts: | 17th March 1999 |
| Decision and Notification: | 24th March 1999 |
| Workshop Date: | 29th April 1999 |
Please send submissions by email (preferably in Word, postscript, or pdf format) to Stephen Viller
For more information contact:
Stephen VillerComputing Department
Lancaster University
Lancaster LA1 4YR
email: viller@comp.lancs.ac.uk
tel: +44 (0)1524 593786
fax: +44 (0)1524 593608
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