Abstract
Developing appropriate user interfaces is crucial for a positive user experience, as some users may require that the interaction supports specific interface elements for them. However, developing adequate interfaces for autistic users is not easy, as software development teams may not know how to design a user interface from the collected requirements. This paper presents a specific artifact, called Table of Requirements and Constraints, or simply TRC, to support interface design from requirements identification to prototype development of applications for the autism domain. Also, we identified quality attributes and defined a process to refine the requirements into user interface design ideas. We evaluated our proposal in an interface project development with industry practitioners to gather data on its feasibility. The obtained results indicate that these practitioners found that the artifacts guide the development team by defining an interface while providing opportunities for improvement in the requirements registration template to improve its use. With this work, we intend to support the professionals from the requirements identifications until the prototyping stage by developing and integrating these artifacts.
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
References
American Psychiatric Association, et al.: Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders: DSM-5 (2013)
Cabral, L.N., et al.: Análise de técnicas para elicitação de requisitos de softwares gamificados para crianças com autismo (2021)
Chuttur, M.Y.: Overview of the technology acceptance model: origins, developments and future directions. Work. Pap. Inf. Syst. 9(37), 9–37 (2009)
Davis, F.D.: Perceived usefulness, perceived ease of use, and user acceptance of information technology. MIS Q. 13, 319–340 (1989)
Hadar, I., Soffer, P., Kenzi, K.: The role of domain knowledge in requirements elicitation via interviews: an exploratory study. Requir. Eng. 19(2), 143–159 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00766-012-0163-2
Kulk, G., Verhoef, C.: Quantifying requirements volatility effects. Sci. Comput. Program. 72(3), 136–175 (2008)
Melo, A., Oran, A., dos Santos, J., Rivero, L., Barreto, R.: Requirements elicitation in the context of software for low-functioning autistic people: An initial proposal of specific supporting artifacts. In: Brazilian Symposium on Software Engineering, pp. 291–296 (2021)
Melo, A.H.d.S., Rivero, L., dos Santos, J.S., Barreto, R.d.S.: EmpathyAut: an empathy map for people with autism. In: IHC 2020. Association for Computing Machinery, New York (2020). https://doi.org/10.1145/3424953.3426650
Melo, A.H.d.S., Rivero, L., dos Santos, J.S., Barreto, R.d.S.: PersonAut: a personas model for people with autism spectrum disorder. In: Proceedings of the 19th Brazilian Symposium on Human Factors in Computing Systems, IHC 2020. Association for Computing Machinery, New York (2020). https://doi.org/10.1145/3424953.3426651
Miñón, R., Moreno, L., Martínez, P., Abascal, J.: An approach to the integration of accessibility requirements into a user interface development method. Sci. Comput. Program. 86, 58–73 (2014)
Onwuegbuzie, A.J., Dickinson, W.B., Leech, N.L., Zoran, A.G.: A qualitative framework for collecting and analyzing data in focus group research. Int. J. Qual. Methods 8(3), 1–21 (2009)
Pitts, M.G., Browne, G.J.: Improving requirements elicitation: an empirical investigation of procedural prompts. Inf. Syst. J. 17(1), 89–110 (2007)
Schmidt, R.F.: Software requirements definition. In: Schmidt, R.F. (ed.) Software Engineering, Chap. 17 , pp. 291–303. Morgan Kaufmann, Boston (2013). https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-0-12-407768-3.00017-3. https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/B9780124077683000173
Sommerville, I.: Software Engineering, 9th edn. (2011). ISBN-10 137035152, 18
Tahir, M.N., Khan, S., Raza, A.: Challenges in requirements engineering for mobile applications for disabled-autism. J. Ind. Intell. Inf. 1(4) (2013)
Valente, M.T.: Engenharia de software moderna (livro digital) (2020)
Wilkinson, S.: Focus group methodology: a review. Int. J. Soc. Res. Methodol. 1(3), 181–203 (1998)
Wong, L.P.: Focus group discussion: a tool for health and medical research. Singap. Med. J. 49(3), 256–260 (2008)
Acknowledgments
This research was partially funded by the brazilian Coordination for the Improvement of Higher Education Personnel (CAPES). The authors’ thank the Universidade do Estado do Amazonas (UEA) for their support. The results were published through the research and development activities of the project ACADEMIA STEM, sponsored by Samsung Electronics of Amazonia Ltda., with the support of SUFRAMA under the terms of Federal Law No. 8.387/1991.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Corresponding author
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2022 Springer Nature Switzerland AG
About this paper
Cite this paper
da Silva Melo, Á.H. et al. (2022). From Requirements to Prototyping: Proposal and Evaluation of an Artifact to Support Interface Design in the Context of Autism. In: Duffy, V.G., Gao, Q., Zhou, J., Antona, M., Stephanidis, C. (eds) HCI International 2022 – Late Breaking Papers: HCI for Health, Well-being, Universal Access and Healthy Aging. HCII 2022. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 13521. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17902-0_22
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-17902-0_22
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, Cham
Print ISBN: 978-3-031-17901-3
Online ISBN: 978-3-031-17902-0
eBook Packages: Computer ScienceComputer Science (R0)