[Myexperiment-discuss] Requirements work

[Alexander Voss]

Dear all,

just thought I'd point you to a book by Andy Crabtree which might be 
useful in the context of doing the requirements work for myExperiment:

Andy Crabtree, Designing Collaborative Systems: A Practical Guide to 
Ethnography, Springer 2003

This book discusses various forms of user-designer engagement around the 
idea of using workplace studies to inform design and touches on patterns 
(of observed behaviour) and prototyping.

I just found out that this is available as an electronic book (PDF) from 
Ryland's at http://www.springerlink.com/content/978-1-85233-848-0/ You 
can download the individual chapters or go to the series webpage at 
http://www.springerlink.com/content/r85412/ to get the whole book as a PDF.

There is some other useful material that people have put together for BT 
at some point when they got interested in the whole matter of people 
using services (what was that again?) Will see if I can find this stuff 
again.

Also, the attached paper on corealisation might be of interest although 
it is written more as an academic paper than a practical guide. I am 
playing with the thought of writing a short summary of approaches to 
requirements work and user-designer relations in e-science but nothing 
concrete has happened yet. Prod me if you think this might be useful.

Cheers,

Alex

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Alexander Voss, Research Associate
National Centre for e-Social Science
University of Manchester
Phone: +44 161 275 1384
Phone @ eSI: +44 131 651 4041
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Homepage: http://www.alexandervoss.de

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