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Deferred system's design: Situated system requirements gathering with Hyper-Tmodeller

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The conceptual foundations underpinning the approach to system requirements gathering considered in this paper aredeferred system's design andtailorable information systems. In this approach users of information systems are regarded as active developers. System requirements gathering is considered from an interpretative and situated perspective using the Hyper-Tmodeller CASE tool. The tool enables better interpretative and situated system requirements gathering, through visual modelling by users and professional system developers. It is designed to address the requirements communication gap between system analysts, designers and eventual users.

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Patel, N.V. Deferred system's design: Situated system requirements gathering with Hyper-Tmodeller. AI & Soc 15, 316–343 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01206113

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