STTR Phase I: Integrating scenario-based usability engineering and agile software development practices

STTR 第一阶段：集成基于场景的可用性工程和敏捷软件开发实践

• 批准号: 0740827
• 负责人: Kenneth Todd Stevens
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Meridium Inc.
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2008
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2008-01-01 至 2008-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0740827&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: STTR; Phase; Integrating; scenario; based

This Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) Phase I will integrate scenario-based usability design practices into existing agile development processes and tools to enable the efficient development of usable software systems. This effort will integrate scenario-based design methods with agile methods employed for industrial desktop and mobile application development. Agile development methodologies have emerged as one way to mitigate the many risks of software development. However, these methods and tools focus heavily on implementation at the expense of usability - resulting in systems which meet functional requirements, but which can be difficult or frustrating for end users. This research will identify key interactions, communication mechanisms, and design representations to enable successful integration of usability into agile processes. This work will be validated through a combination of small-scale development projects using the combined approach and early-stage tools as well as interviews and questionnaires with users in all areas of application development, including software engineers, managers and business analysts. The proposed efforts, motivated by a clear line of background and related work, will address the theory-practice gap between academia and industry by bringing classic and recent innovations in human-computer interaction and usability research into the agile software development arena. The efforts will enhance understanding in scientific and engineering communities by providing important feedback and results to validate and motivate further HCI research in usability engineering within a practical agile development context. The results of these efforts will be disseminated through leading research and industry publications and by organizing workshops and presentations at a combination of agile and HCI conferences.

这个小型企业创新研究（SBIR）第一阶段将把基于场景的可用性设计实践集成到现有的敏捷开发过程和工具中，以实现可用软件系统的有效开发。这项工作将集成基于场景的设计方法和用于工业桌面和移动应用程序开发的敏捷方法。敏捷开发方法作为一种减轻软件开发风险的方法而出现。然而，这些方法和工具以牺牲可用性为代价，将重点放在实现上——导致系统满足功能需求，但对最终用户来说可能很困难或令人沮丧。这项研究将确定关键的交互、通信机制和设计表示，以成功地将可用性集成到敏捷过程中。这项工作将通过使用组合方法和早期工具的小规模开发项目的组合，以及与应用程序开发所有领域的用户（包括软件工程师、经理和业务分析师）的访谈和问卷调查来验证。在清晰的背景和相关工作的推动下，提议的努力将通过将人机交互和可用性研究的经典和最新创新引入敏捷软件开发领域，解决学术界和工业界之间的理论与实践差距。这些努力将通过提供重要的反馈和结果来验证和激励在实际敏捷开发环境中可用性工程中的进一步HCI研究，从而增强科学和工程社区的理解。这些努力的成果将通过领先的研究和行业出版物以及在敏捷和HCI会议上组织讲习班和演讲来传播。