TY - GEN
T1 - Automated group facilitation for gathering wide audience end-user requirements
AU - Derrick, Douglas C.
AU - Read, Aaron
AU - Nguyen, Cuong
AU - Callens, Andy
AU - De Vreede, Gert Jan
PY - 2013
Y1 - 2013
N2 - The System development projects continue to fail at unacceptable rates. Including a wide array of users in the requirements development process for a wide-audience system can help to increase system success. Facilitated group workshops can effectively and efficiently gather requirements from several different users. To decrease cost and increase the number of potential workshop participants, we designed an embodied agent facilitator to guide groups through the facilitation process. We extend previous research which found human facilitated prompting to be effective at increasing the completeness of requirements gathered by replacing the facilitator with an avatar which administered the same prompts. We hypothesize that the avatar facilitated group will also have a significant increase in the quality and quantity of requirements gathered and find support for our hypothesis.
AB - The System development projects continue to fail at unacceptable rates. Including a wide array of users in the requirements development process for a wide-audience system can help to increase system success. Facilitated group workshops can effectively and efficiently gather requirements from several different users. To decrease cost and increase the number of potential workshop participants, we designed an embodied agent facilitator to guide groups through the facilitation process. We extend previous research which found human facilitated prompting to be effective at increasing the completeness of requirements gathered by replacing the facilitator with an avatar which administered the same prompts. We hypothesize that the avatar facilitated group will also have a significant increase in the quality and quantity of requirements gathered and find support for our hypothesis.
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U2 - 10.1109/HICSS.2013.109
DO - 10.1109/HICSS.2013.109
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84875531395
SN - 9780769548920
T3 - Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences
SP - 195
EP - 204
BT - Proceedings of the 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2013
T2 - 46th Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, HICSS 2013
Y2 - 7 January 2013 through 10 January 2013
ER -