Incorporating Behavioral Techniques Into the Systems Development Life Cycle.

Author List: Mantei, Marilyn M.; Teorey, Toby J.;
MIS Quarterly, 1989, Volume 13, Issue 3, Page 257-274.
The gathering of a variety of human-oriented information is vital in the development stages of a software system. This information can be applied at a given stage to improve the human-computer interface of the software product. To reflect this, new categories of design and/or development effort need to be added to the traditional systems development stages. These efforts, termed user factor stages, differ from the traditional feasibility studies, requirements analyses, and tests that are currently conducted. The stages offer a flexible series of techniques, which can be compared and contrasted in terms of their expected information benefit, cost, and reliability of data obtained. As a concrete example, the development of a forms interface to a relational database management system illustrates these techniques.
Keywords: Design; human computer interaction; human factors; management; prototyping; user factors life cycle; user testing
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#90 0.262 development life cycle prototyping new stages routines stage design experiences traditional time sdlc suggested strategies rapid effort integrated needs techniques
#283 0.170 interface user users interaction design visual interfaces human-computer navigation human need cues studies guidelines laboratory functional developed restricted know guided
#159 0.128 systems information objectives organization organizational development variety needs need efforts technical organizations developing suggest given effective designing lack help recent
#198 0.095 factors success information critical management implementation study factor successful systems support quality variables related results key model csf importance determinants
#60 0.084 analysis techniques structured categories protocol used evolution support methods protocols verbal improve object-oriented difficulties analyses category benchmark comparison provided recognition
#281 0.079 database language query databases natural data queries relational processing paper using request views access use matching automated semantic based languages
#86 0.063 methods information systems approach using method requirements used use developed effective develop determining research determine assessment useful series critical existing