Structured and unobtrusive observation of anonymous users and their context for requirements elicitation

Proceedings of the 2011 IEEE 19th International Requirements Engineering Conference, RE 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 175-184

  Brill, Olesia ^a   Knauss, Eric ^a  

^a LEIBNIZ UNIVERSITY HANNOVER   (Germany)

Author keywords

context adaptive systems; requirements elicitation; requirements evolution; user observation

Indexed keywords

IT SYSTEM; REQUIREMENTS ELICITATION; REQUIREMENTS EVOLUTION; USER OBSERVATION;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; REQUIREMENTS ENGINEERING;

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY;

EID: 82455198974     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/RE.2011.6051660     Document Type: Conference Paper

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