Coping with Design Complexity: A Conceptual Framework for Design Alternatives and Variants

Bowen, Judy; Dittmar, Anke

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-67744-6_30

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“…Instead, we take a design-oriented perspective and consider design activities as domain-specific construction of design representations [42]. In [7], we argue that designers need to be supported in generating ideas, but also in comparing different design representations and in understanding how they are related and whether or not they satisfy some initial or evolving design specifications and constraints. Generally, it is still challenging to effectively couple different design representations in interaction design [7].…”

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“…In [7], we argue that designers need to be supported in generating ideas, but also in comparing different design representations and in understanding how they are related and whether or not they satisfy some initial or evolving design specifications and constraints. Generally, it is still challenging to effectively couple different design representations in interaction design [7]. The proposed stronger interweaving of personas and use case models supports their co-development and the integration of different design perspectives.…”

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Integrating Personas and Use Case Models

Dittmar¹,

Forbrig²

2019

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Multidisciplinary design is characterized by phases of distributed work and co-design activities. An effective sharing and integration of design representations that are created by sub-teams from different disciplines is still often challenging and typically requires the reconciliation of diverging design perspectives. This paper investigates an integrated use of personas and use cases -two popular types of design representations among interaction designers and software engineers respectively. The proposed integration is particularly suitable for role-based interactive systems and differs from existing integration approaches in that it is based on a critical examination of the prevalent understandings of the goal concept in persona and use case approaches. In the paper we suggest distinguishing between organizational and user goals (while at the same time acknowledging their interplay). Corresponding adaptations to use case notations and personas are introduced and discussed. These remove the tight coupling between goals and tasks and allow integration of organizational and different persona-specific design perspectives within one use case specification and at the interaction level. As a result, interactive systems can be specified by a more compact sets of use cases. This is illustrated by an example in the context of course management systems in higher education.

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Section: Discussionmentioning

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Integrating Personas and Use Case Models

Dittmar¹,

Forbrig²

2019

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Design space literature has considered different approaches to design. Utilizing design spaces for interaction design is possible [38] and design space analysis has been one of the tools in the design of interactive systems [39,40]. Bowen and Dittmar [41] consider user-centered design, interaction design research, and engineering approaches to human-computer interaction.…”

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Design Space for Voice-Based Professional Reporting

Hakulinen

Keskinen

Turunen

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Speech technology has matured so that voice-based reporting utilizing speech-to-text can be applied in various domains. Speech has two major benefits: it enables efficient reporting and speech input improves the quality of the reports since reporting can be done as a part of the workflow without delays between work and reporting. However, designing reporting voice user interfaces (VUIs) for professional use is challenging, as there are numerous aspects from technology to organization and language that need to be considered. Based on our experience in developing professional reporting VUIs with different stakeholders representing both commercial and public sector, we define a design space for voice-based reporting systems. The design space consists of 28 dimensions grouped into five categories: Language Processing, Structure of Reporting, Technical Limitations in the Work Domain, Interaction Related Aspects in the Work Domain, and Organization. We illustrate the design space by discussing four voice-based reporting systems, designed and implemented by us, and describing a design process that utilizes it. The design space enables designers to identify critical aspects of professional reporting VUIs and optimize those for their target domain. The design space can be used as a practical tool especially by designers with limited experience on speech technologies.

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“…As mentioned in the introduction, people with diverse viewpoints and expertise are needed and this may be one reason why interaction design research and practices developed from many influences, including ideas from design rationale [11] and from the reflective practice paradigm [3]. We discuss the background of our framework of complex design spaces in more detail in [2], [12]. Here, those aspects of the framework are briefly presented which are essential for the suggested definitions and use of traces.…”

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Formal Definitions for Design Spaces and Traces

Bowen

Dittmar

2017

2017 24th Asia-Pacific Software Engineering Conference (APSEC)

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Within the domain of interactive system development and design, particularly for safety-critical systems, there is an inherent tension between formalisms used for software engineering methodologies and the creative aspects of design. In this paper we consider how we might better unify these by way of a framework for design spaces and design artefacts. We present formal definitions for simple and complex design spaces and then describe how they are incorporated into traces. We then discuss how these can be used to reason about considerations such as preservation of requirements and iterative changes throughout the design process and provide some small examples of this.

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Coping with Design Complexity: A Conceptual Framework for Design Alternatives and Variants

Cited by 4 publications

References 32 publications

Integrating Personas and Use Case Models

Integrating Personas and Use Case Models

Design Space for Voice-Based Professional Reporting

Formal Definitions for Design Spaces and Traces

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