Designing mobile systems in highly dynamic scenarios

the workpad methodology

Shah Rukh Humayoun

Tiziana Catarci

Massimiliano de Leoni

Andrea Marrella

Massimo Mecella

Manfred Bortenschlager

Renate Steinmann

pp. 25-43

in: Ilpo Koskinen (ed), Interaction design in Italy, Knowledge, Technology & Policy 22 (1), 2009.

Abstract

The design of interactive systems to be used in mobile and pervasive scenarios, such as emergency management, requires novel methodologies which combine user-centred design approaches and software engineering approaches tailored for distributed architectures. In this paper, the methodology adopted in a successful research project is presented together with a case study.