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This position paper attempts to address the need of including persons, users, as a part of software conception and design. The proposal encourages a keen understanding of the context of use. How and why will the users “use” the product? When? What are their personal goals for using it? Model Driven Engineering has proven its capacity to create software products from (UML) models, but -in our understanding-, it is not enough for specifying products that persons use and love. In order to create human-aware products, traditional analysts of functionality results incomplete. In order to complete the specification of a system a so-called user analysis is considered, complementing the traditional OO functionality and structure analysis. This paper should encourage research in such a line, extending modeling languages to include the new requirements and creating methods to incorporate them in the engineering process.
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Iborra, E., Iborra, J. (2008). Modeling for Users. In: Mühlhäuser, M., Ferscha, A., Aitenbichler, E. (eds) Constructing Ambient Intelligence. AmI 2007. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 11. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-85379-4_10
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