Metadesign: Guidelines for Supporting Domain Experts in Software Development

Our collaborative research activities in software development (at the University of Colorado's Center for Lifelong Learning and Design, the University of Tokyo, and Software Research Associates) have focused on understanding the implications of the quickly disappearing distinction between users...

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Published inIEEE software Vol. 26; no. 5; pp. 37 - 44
Main Authors Fischer, G., Nakakoji, K., Yunwen Ye
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Los Alamitos IEEE 01.09.2009
IEEE Computer Society
Subjects
Application software
Biological system modeling
Charge
Collaboration
Computer programs
Continuums
Data analysis
Design
Design engineering
Designers
Developers
domain experts
domain-oriented design environments
domain-specific software development
ecologies of participation
End users
end-user development
end-user software engineering
Engineers
Environmental factors
evolutionary growth
Guidelines
Instruments
Knowledge
mash-ups
metadesign
open source
Open source software
Productivity
Programming profession
R&D
Research & development
reseeding
seeding
Software
software developers
Software development
Software engineering
Software systems
Studies
Subject specialists
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Summary:Our collaborative research activities in software development (at the University of Colorado's Center for Lifelong Learning and Design, the University of Tokyo, and Software Research Associates) have focused on understanding the implications of the quickly disappearing distinction between users and developers. We've also concentrated on establishing new software development methodologies by viewing software systems as continuously evolving sociotechnical systems driven by design activities of both professional software engineers and users. We believe that domain experts, as the owners of problems, need to be in charge of developing the software they require. Toward that end, we've created the metadesign framework, which reformulates software development activities as a continuum of different degrees of design and use. In addition, on the basis of our research and our findings in the research literature, we've developed a set of guidelines for supporting domain experts in software development.
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ISSN:0740-7459
1937-4194
DOI:10.1109/MS.2009.134