This paper describes an extended framework for scenario based spatial decision support for constructing new network infrastructure and its application in the domains of telecommunication, forestry and energy. There is an increasing need to provide new planning paradigms to support very expensive strategic investment decisions in new network infrastructure in these domains. The planning processe...

The focus of this paper is on the challenges and opportunities presented by developing scenarios of use for interactive medical devices. Scenarios are integral to the international standard for usability engineering of medical devices (IEC 62366:2007), and are also applied to the development of health software (draft standard IEC 82304-1). The 62366 standard lays out a process for mitigating ri...

The paper presents a scenario-based methodology developed and tested throughout cooperative research and development projects. It is aimed at supporting information technology innovation with an end-to-end Human and Social Sciences assistance. This methodology provides an integrated approach combining a vision of the potential users, business aspects and technological challenges throughout the ...

In recent years, there has been great interest in scenario-based design and other forms of user-centred design. However, there are many design processes that, often for good reason, remain technology-centred. We present a case study of introducing scenarios into two digital library development processes. This was found to disrupt established patterns of working and to bring together conflicting...

An evolutionary approach to design communication protocols from scenario-based specifications is presented. It enables to automatically generate finite-state models of protocol entities from Message Sequence Charts. By converting the Message Sequence Charts into input/output sequences, the problem reduces to evolving finite-state machines with the specified input/output behaviors. The proposed ...

The latest ITU-T standard syntax of Message Sequence Charts (MSCs) 16] ooers several operators to compose MSCs in a hierarchical , iterating, and nondeterministic way. However, current tools operate on MSCs that describe nite, deterministic behavior. In this paper, we describe the architecture and the partial implementation of Mesa, an MSC-based tool that supports early phases of the software d...

1. Abstract This paper summarizes findings related to dealing with the complexity of the design of vehicles for optimal dynamic performance under various driving scenarios. It describes how the authors and their students have been able to improve various algorithms and approaches over several years and where they stand today. The work reviewed starts with a MonteCarlo-based vehicle design metho...

Although users have been interacting with computer and video games for decades, published work on gaming in the literature of human-computer interaction (HCI) has been limited until recently. Despite this lack of research, the computer games industry has become one of the most lucrative technological and media industries, raising questions about whether the HCI community really has anything to ...

To increase the preparedness Crisis response and management authorities carry out various forms of exercises. This article is based upon a three year long project named Gaining security symbiosis (GSS). The project was aiming to increase the collaboration between crisis actors in the Swedish-Norway border region through exercises. We argue that creation of scenarios is a design challenge. In th...

Over the past several years, researchers within the ONR-sponsored Adaptive Architectures for Command and Control (A2C2) research program have been investigating the concept of organizational “congruence”. These model-based theories loosely state that the better an organization is matched structurally to the overall mission (as measured using a multi-variant set of workload/congruence metrics) t...