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1993
 
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Sommerville, Ian, Rodden, Tom, Sawyer, Pete, Bentley, Richard and Twidale, Michael (1993): Integrating ethnography into the requirements engineering process. In: IEEE International Symposium on Requirements Engineering RE93 January 6, 1993, San Diego, USA. pp. 165-173.

“Experiences from an interdisciplinary project involving software engineers and sociologists are reported. The project is concerned with discovering the requirements of a user interface to a flight database which is used to provide real-time information to air-traffic controllers. The sociologists are conducting an ethnographic analysis of the activity of air-traffic control, and this is being used for the development of a prototype system. An overview of the project is given, the contribution of sociologists to requirements engineering is discussed, and tool support which will allow ethnographic observations to be integrated into the requirements engineering process is suggested”

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1992
 
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Sommerville, Ian, Rodden, Tom, Sawyer, Pete and Bentley, Richard (1992): Sociologists Can be Surprisingly Useful in Interactive Systems Design. In: Monk, Andrew, Diaper, Dan and Harrison, Michael D. (eds.) Proceedings of the Seventh Conference of the British Computer Society Human Computer Interaction Specialist Group - People and Computers VII August 15-18, 1992, University of York, UK. pp. 341-353.

“This paper makes a case, to system developers, for inter-disciplinary working and the involvement of sociologists in the systems design process. Our argument is based on the fact that effective systems must take account of the social context in which these systems are situated. The paper is based on our experiences of working with sociologists in a study of air traffic control automation. We describe the model of working which we use and which we believe allows effective utilisation of the skills of both disciplines. We then set out pre-cursors for effective inter-disciplinary collaboration and how people from radically different backgrounds can work in harmony. Finally, we discuss some of the problems of collaboration which are likely to arise.”

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