User-Centered Design

• Type: Chapter or Part of a Book
• Date: 2017

Authors

Daniela Doroftei (Author) Other; Geert De Cubber (Author) Other; Rene Wagemans (Author) Other; Aníbal Matos (Author) FEUP; Eduardo Silva (Author) Other; Victor Lobo (Author) Other; Guerreiro Cardoso (Author) Other; Keshav Chintamani (Author) Other; Shashank Govindaraj (Author) Other; Jeremi Gancet (Author) Other; Daniel Serrano (Author) Other

Book

Title: Search and Rescue Robotics - From Theory to Practice

Pages: 19-36

ISBN: 9789535133759

Electronic ISBN: 9789535133766

Other information

Authenticus ID: P-00N-CQ2

DOI: 10.5772/intechopen.69483

Abstract (EN): The successful introduction and acceptance of novel technological tools are only possible if end users are completely integrated in the design process. However, obtaining such integration of end users is not obvious, as end‐user organizations often do not consider research toward new technological aids as their core business and are therefore reluctant to engage in these kinds of activities. This chapter explains how this problem was tackled in the ICARUS project, by carefully identifying and approaching the targeted user com‐ munities and by compiling user requirements. Resulting from these user requirements, system requirements and a system architecture for the ICARUS system were deduced. An important aspect of the user‐centered design approach is that it is an iterative methodol‐ ogy, based on multiple intermediate operational validations by end users of the devel‐ oped tools, leading to a final validation according to user‐scripted validation scenarios.

Language: English

Type (Professor's evaluation): Scientific

No. of pages: 18