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User requirements for a web based spreadsheet-mediated collaboration

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This paper reports the initial results of a research project to investigate how to develop a web based spreadsheet mediated business collaboration system that could notably enhance the business processes presently carried out by Small to Medium sized Enterprises. Using a scenario-based design approach, a set of user's requirements were extracted from an appropriate field study. These requirements were then analysed in the context of well-known usability principles, and a set of design implications were derived based on a selected set of HCI design patterns related to cooperative interaction design. Starting from that knowledge, suitable interactive collaboration scenarios have been drawn, from which a list of user interface requirements for a web based spreadsheet mediated collaboration system has been formulated.

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AVI '10: Proceedings of the International Conference on Advanced Visual Interfaces
May 2010
427 pages
ISBN:9781450300766
DOI:10.1145/1842993
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  1. HCI design patterns
  2. artifact mediated collaboration
  3. scenario-based design
  4. usability principles

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