Crews: Towards Systematic Usage of Scenarios, Use Cases and Scenes

Scenarios in HIV/AIDS prevention research: Insights from literature and research in Botswana

“…They offer a middle-ground between speculation and reality; serve as a medium for facilitating participation use of knowledge [14]. A case scenario is as a textual or graphical description of a possible set of events that might reasonably take place in a given situation or context [15]. The scene stimulates thinking about current problems or concerns, possible occurrences, assumptions relating to these occurrences, action opportunities and risks [15].…”

“…A case scenario is as a textual or graphical description of a possible set of events that might reasonably take place in a given situation or context [15]. The scene stimulates thinking about current problems or concerns, possible occurrences, assumptions relating to these occurrences, action opportunities and risks [15]. In this context scenarios are useful in obtaining sensitive information in a participatory non-personalized manner that facilitates openness and enriches the depth of data collection.…”

“…Scenarios can be used in social processes that prohibit or inhibit complete assessment of individuals. They can be used for elicitation/discovery and validation/refinement of data to fill the gap between the old (unknown) and new (future) worlds [15]. Case scenarios can serve as change stimulants.…”

“…Scenarios consist of the following elements: 1) setting or context, or environment which is the scene from the epi-sode being described; 2) actors or imagined typical people whose profile is being depicted, either alone or in relationship with others; 3) goals and objectives: the actors are usually motivated by some goal or objective they are pursuing; 4) actions and events: a sequence of activities and events or incidents and, 5) claims: underlying questions or concerns in the events [16,18]. A 6th element has been added [15], being subject domain or universe of discourse: which describes the main content area being studied. This classification can also be expanded to include the influencing factors on the actions, reactions of actors, and the impact of the actions on both the actors and their environment (include significant persons in their lives).…”

“…Scenarios have been used extensively in computer and engineering sciences research to explore and resolve user problems [11,[15][16][17] "for understanding the Old World, identification of problems and their causes, before proceeding to proposing justifiable changes for a New World" [18]. Usability research offers several good and coherent definitions for scenarios [14,18,19].…”