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Showing 1 to 20 of 117 for “"user requirements"”.
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Eliciting User Requirements Using Appreciative Inquiry
… fail because they do not meet the needs of users, are over-budget, and abandoned. To address this problem, the user requirements elicitation process was modified based on principles of Appreciative Inquiry. Appreciative Inquiry, commonly used in organizational development, aims to build …
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Day centres for the elderly: the architectural setting and user requirements
… detailed research and knowledge relevant to the requirements of users and the design of both social day centres and day care centres. In addition, the potential existed for a mismatch between the changing requirements of the users of social day centres, as they age and become more frail and/or …
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User requirements for domestic energy applications : households in informal urban settings
… focus of this dissertation is the specificity of user requirements for domestic energy applications in informal urban settlements and how these are fashioned by the contextual pre-conditions of poverty and instability. The fieldwork focused on a group of people who can be defined by the facts that …
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Older adults' user experiences with mobile phones: identification of user clusters and user requirements
… mixed-research method to identify representative user clusters and to understand user experiences. In Study 1, 154 older adult mobile phone users completed a questionnaire to investigate 1) functional usage, 2) perception about mobile phone quality, and 3) other aspects of user experiences (e.g., …
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User innovation in digital design and construction : dialectical relations between standard BIM tools and specific user requirements
… different contexts of use. Consequently, the requirements of its users are becoming heterogeneous and this heterogeneity hinders the development of BIM tools that can satisfy all possible user requirements. Instead, tools are developed to satisfy more broad, general, and generic needs of the …
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A Low-Complexity Architecture and Framework for Enabling Cognition in Heterogenous Wireless Sensor Networks
… in harsh environments), and with regards to user requirements. Consequently, it is vital for WSNs to sense the current network conditions and user requirements to be able to perform efficiently. Cognition is necessarily introduced in WSNs as a response to this need. Cognition in the context …
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Design and Implementation of a Secondary Surveillance Radar/Identification Friend or Foe Transceiver Card
… expensive, hard to transport and requires end-user certificates. This dissertation thus focuses on the design and implementation of a short-range real- time SSR/IFF Transceiver Card (ITRC), which can be used as an experimental platform for SSR/IFF test applications. User requirements are …
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A methodical approach to formulating the client user input to a design brief for health building
… that methods used currently to formulate client user requirements for a brief are varied and haphazard, despite the generally held importance of the brief.This apparent deficiency it is argued, often results in misunderstanding of the real user requirements by not providing adequate …
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Design and Testing of an Adult Age-Independent Online Needs Assessment Tool and Development of Adult Age-Independent Design Guidelines
… needs and capabilities of both older and younger users and, (2) Developing adult age-independent design guidelines. An online tool, which was developed for a previous study, was revised according to the results of the previous study and preliminary development activities based upon the user …
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Services for activities in group editing 'sage'
… The project uses case studies to identify user requirements and to determine common functionalities for a variety of group editing activities. A prototype is implemented in an X.400 environment to help refine user requirements, as a source of new ideas and to test the proposed …
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Systems approach for housing prototype improvement : case study, Thailand
… technology and responsive design method to user requirements . In the light of the above, this study aims at determining comprehensive guidelines for the improvement of housing prototypes in Thailand . To exemplify such guidelines, a housing model is selected, i.e., a typical walk-up …
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Design implications of an online collaborative workspace developed using open source software
… addressed in this study is: What are the user requirements and design specifications of an online collaborative workspace developed in open source software? In order to answer this main question, the following sub-questions need to be addressed: What are the main design principles and …
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Feasibility and requirements analysis of MIS for operational patrol squadrons in the United States Navy
… and projects are explained and evaluated, and user requirements are analyzed in order to make recommendations for future development. The Aviation Training Support System (ATTS), Naval Aviation Logistics Command Management Information System (NALCOMIS), and proposed Portable Logistics System …
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Customisable abstract representation layer for digital libraries
The user interface is a very important component in a piece of software as it is the layer which allows user interaction with the underlying functionality. Within the domain of digital libraries modification to the interface layer, to make it more appropriate for target users, requires substantial …
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Process of designing city housing in Japan
… to providing more preferable housing for users in Japan. Chapter 1 gives an overview of trends in Japanese housing construction, describes user requirements, analyzes problems in a case study, and suggests fundamental principles of design to guide future design decisions. In Chapter 2, the …
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Wireless systems for the fourth generation
… networks are consolidated realities, and user expectations on new applications and services are becoming higher and higher. Therefore, new systems and technologies are necessary to move towards the market needs and the user requirements. This has driven the development of fourth generation …
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Design and implementation of a dedicated planning and implementation software system using a driving simulator to support occupational therapy intervention and data collection in the context of studies
… In the first part, the concept based on user requirements is presented. It consists of architectural patterns and guidelines with the main focus on utility and appli- cation security. The result of this part is the design of a web application which supports integration in a clinical as …
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Automatic generation of SDL specifications from MSCs
… different phases during their life cycle. From user requirements to the deployment and maintenance, a software system goes through design, implementation and testing phases. The time for developing software systems is crucial. The goal of software teams is to shorten the development time and …
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A wireless wide area network PDA application for on-call ambulatory care physicians
… HealthCare System (PHS) physicians to determine user requirements, implemented a formal method (not previously used within the PHS Information Systems division) to create a Software Requirements Specification (SRS), and developed a prototype user interface for a future LMR2go application (a …
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