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Goal Models for Acceptance Requirements Analysis and Gamification Design

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Conceptual Modeling (ER 2017)

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The success of software systems highly depends on user engagement. Thus, to deliver engaging systems, software has to be designed carefully taking into account Acceptance Requirements, such as “70% of users will use the system”, and the psychological factors that could influence users to use the system. Analysis can then consider mechanisms that affect these factors, such as Gamification (making a game out of system use), advertising, incentives and more.

We propose a Systematic Acceptance Requirements Analysis Framework based on Gamification for supporting the requirements engineer in analyzing and designing engaging software systems. Our framework, named Agon, encompasses both a methodology and a meta-model capturing acceptance and gamification knowledge. In this paper, we describe the Agon Meta-Model and provide examples from the gamification of a decision-making platform in the context of a European Project.

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Acknowledgments

This project has received funding from the SESAR Joint Undertaking under grant agreement No. 699306 under European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme.

This work was partially supported by ERC Advanced Grant 267856, titled “Lucretius: Foundations for Software Evolution.”

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    Luca Piras, Elda Paja, Paolo Giorgini & John Mylopoulos

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Piras, L., Paja, E., Giorgini, P., Mylopoulos, J. (2017). Goal Models for Acceptance Requirements Analysis and Gamification Design. In: Mayr, H., Guizzardi, G., Ma, H., Pastor, O. (eds) Conceptual Modeling. ER 2017. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10650. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-69904-2_18

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