The Tacit Dimension of User-Tasks: Elicitation and Contextual Representation

Jeannette Hemmecke, Christian Stary

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Abstract

Traditional task-elicitation techniques provide prepared structures for acquiring and representing knowledge about user tasks. As different users might perceive work tasks quite differently, normative elicitation and representation schemes do not necessarily lead to accurate support of individual users. If the individual perception of tasks should guide the development of user interfaces personal constructs have to be taken into account. They can be elicited through repertory grids: Personal work content and task-relevant information emerge in the course of structured interviews and can be transformed to conventional representation schemes, even for execution and prototyping. In this paper we introduce an elicitation procedure based on repertory grids and its embodiment in a working user-centered and task-based design approach.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTask Models and Diagrams for Users Interface Design - 5th International Workshop, TAMODIA 2006, Revised Papers
PublisherSpringer
Pages308-323
Number of pages16
ISBN (Print)9783540708155
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2007
EventTAMODIA'06 - Hasselt, Belgium
Duration: 23 Oct 200624 Oct 2006

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume4385 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

ConferenceTAMODIA'06
Country/TerritoryBelgium
CityHasselt
Period23.10.200624.10.2006

Keywords

  • Design-knowledge acquisition
  • Externalization
  • Mental constructs
  • Model-based design
  • Repertory grids
  • Task awareness
  • Task context
  • User-interface specification
  • User-task elicitation

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