Title :
Requirements Engineering for E-science: Experiences in Epidemiology
Author :
Thew, Sarah ; Sutcliffe, Alistair ; Procter, Rob ; De Bruijn, Oscar ; McNaught, John ; Venters, Colin C. ; Buchan, Iain
Author_Institution :
Univ. of Manchester, Manchester
Abstract :
The Advises (Adaptive Visualization of E-science) project is developing tools to support geographic visualization in epidemiology and public-health decision making. In this project, a user-centered requirements process focuses on the research questions epidemiologists ask, the language they use, and the tacit knowledge employed in reasoning about epidemiological data. Combining a range of requirements-gathering techniques provides considerable advantages.
Keywords :
data visualisation; medical computing; systems analysis; E-science; geographic visualization; public-health decision making; requirements engineering; Biomedical informatics; Data engineering; Decision making; Diseases; Genetics; Geographic Information Systems; Iterative methods; Technological innovation; Usability; Visualization; data-driven research; epidemiology; ethnography; maps; ontology development; prototyping; requirements analysis; scenarios; storyboards; tacit knowledge;
Journal_Title :
Software, IEEE
