Modelling users for system development in the Cultural Heritage Context.
A lecture was given by Pierluigi Feliciati from the University of Macerata, Italy.
The lecture covered various important aspects:
- One has to focus on users (both user profiles and user types)
- One has to gather information about users through emails, online surveys, interviews, focus groups, usability testing and observation sessions
- Users types can be classified by geographical/demographical/webliographic or behavioural variables
- Web systems can propose content selections corresponding to certain user types and roles
- Before projecting and implementing a system one has to use cases and scenarios
- When drawing use case one has to consider: - the actor, the interaction and the goal
- Use scenarios - one has to keep in mind that scenarios are not predictions, butrather attempts to reflect on the way in which a system is used in the context of daily activity
- To identify user types, it's possible to use the technique of personas since it gives a personal human face, helps the developing team to share understanding of the real users and self referential design
- One can also use user stories - written by users as list of functionalities that he system have to do for them.