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engagement activities is given in Table 1. It is to be noted that stakeholders participated
regularly in the development process.
Table 1. Timeline of focus group engagement activities
ID Type of Involvement Week Number
IT1 Interview 1
QS1 Questionnaire 2-3
WS1 Workshop 4
MT1 Meeting 7
MT2 Meeting 10
WS2 Workshop 14
IT3 Interview 16
QS3 Questionnaire 19
WS3 Workshop 20
QS4 Questionnaire 20-23
WS4 Workshop 24
Another salient feature of UC-IEDP is its flexibility: it may be applied in an iterative
manner or using more conventional waterfall based approach. In this project, an iterative
approach was favored to allow changes as feedback was received from the stakeholders
or requirements changed. This resulted in development of several prototypes as described
in the following sections.
5.1. First prototype
Stage 1
Initial scoping: The developer interviewed the planters to know their expectations.
Discussions also focused on identifying any specific ethical needs. They were then given
a questionnaire to fill in. These activities (IT1, QS1) were instrumental towards defining
the services the system should provide based on the problems identified in the
questionnaires by the planters. It was quite evident from initial observations that they
were moderately at ease with using mobile app technologies. A workshop session (WS1)
between the two parties was then held during which the set of services to be implemented
was refined and finalized. The developer also provided details of devices that would be
required and a consensus was reached based on constraints such as available funds,
availability of devices on the local market and time required to develop the system.
Following the workshop, the developer then generated an initial list of functional and
non-functional requirements. A use case model of the system was also prepared along
with low-fidelity mock-ups of the user interfaces for the application.
Stage 2
Main development: The first design was discussed during a meeting (MT1) in week 8.
Discussions also focused on clarifying the contexts under which the system will operate.
For example, the focus group shed more light on the approximate water required by
specific plants for optimal growth and the specific conditions under which this should be
automated. Feedback was also collected on the UI mock-ups. Following this meeting,
the developer then finalized the list of requirements for the system, and proceeded with
more detailed designs using UML artefacts such as class diagrams, activity diagrams and
state chart diagrams. The test cases for validating the functional requirements were also
defined and a circuit diagram was designed using the Fritzing tool. Android material
design was used to refine the initial mock-ups into high fidelity prototype based on
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Intelligent Environments 2019
Workshop Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
- Titel
- Intelligent Environments 2019
- Untertitel
- Workshop Proceedings of the 15th International Conference on Intelligent Environments
- Autoren
- Andrés Muñoz
- Sofia Ouhbi
- Wolfgang Minker
- Loubna Echabbi
- Miguel Navarro-Cía
- Verlag
- IOS Press BV
- Datum
- 2019
- Sprache
- deutsch
- Lizenz
- CC BY-NC 4.0
- ISBN
- 978-1-61499-983-6
- Abmessungen
- 16.0 x 24.0 cm
- Seiten
- 416
- Kategorie
- Tagungsbände