In the Information Society, end-users keep increasing very fast in number, as well as in their demand with respect to the activities they would like to perform with computer environments, without being obliged to become computer specialists. There is a strong request of providing end-users with powerful and flexible environments, tailorable to the culture, skills and needs of very diverse end-user population. In this paper, we discuss a framework for End-User Development (EUD) and present our methodology to design software environments that support the activities of a particular class of end-users, called domain-expert users, with the objective of easing the way these users work with computers. Such environments are called Software Shaping Workshops in analogy to artisan workshops: they provide users only with the necessary tools that allow them to accomplish their specific activities by properly shaping software artifacts without being lost in the virtual space.

End-User Development: the Software Shaping Workshop Approach / M.F. Costabile, D. Fogli, P. Mussio, A. Piccinno - In: End User Development / [a cura di] Henry Lieberman, Fabio Paternò and Volker Wulf. - Dodrecht : Kluwer Academic, 2006. - ISBN 9781402042201. - pp. 183-205

End-User Development: the Software Shaping Workshop Approach

P. Mussio
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2006

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In the Information Society, end-users keep increasing very fast in number, as well as in their demand with respect to the activities they would like to perform with computer environments, without being obliged to become computer specialists. There is a strong request of providing end-users with powerful and flexible environments, tailorable to the culture, skills and needs of very diverse end-user population. In this paper, we discuss a framework for End-User Development (EUD) and present our methodology to design software environments that support the activities of a particular class of end-users, called domain-expert users, with the objective of easing the way these users work with computers. Such environments are called Software Shaping Workshops in analogy to artisan workshops: they provide users only with the necessary tools that allow them to accomplish their specific activities by properly shaping software artifacts without being lost in the virtual space.
End User evelopment, software Engineering, Software Shaping Workshops
Settore INF/01 - Informatica
2006
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