AGM 2010

From Requirements Engineering Specialist Group

Simon Buckingham-Shum on Design Rationale at the RESG AGM

Slides from Simon's talk "Making Conversations Visible: The Rocky Road from Dreams to Reality..." are now available as a pdf or in web browsable format on slideshare.

Date

Thursday 2nd September 2010

Time

6.00pm onwards

Venue

Level 4 Common Room, Huxley Building, Imperial College London 180 Queen's Gate, SW7 2AZ

Details

Simon Buckingham-Shum, a world expert on design rationale, will be presenting at the annual RESG general meeting.

Design rationale seeks to provide argumentation-based structure to the political, collaborative process of addressing difficult problems such as that of the elicitation and management of project requirements. Simon has a host of seminal publications in in the field, including the books Visualizing Argumentation and Knowledge Cartography. He has also been at the forefront of the development of two free-to-use design rationale tools; Cohere and Compendium, the latter of which has been downloaded over 40,000 times.

ABSTRACT: Having developed, used and evaluated some of the early IBIS-based approaches to design rationale (DR) in the late 1980s/mid-1990s, I describe the subsequent evolution of the argumentation-based paradigm through software support, and perspectives drawn from modeling and meeting facilitation. Particular attention is given to the challenge of negotiating the overheads of capturing this form of rationale. Our approach has maintained a strong emphasis on keeping the representational scheme as simple as possible to enable real time meeting mediation and capture, attending explicitly to the skills required to use the approach well, particularly for the sort of participatory, multi-stakeholder requirements analysis demanded by many design problems. However, we can then specialize the notation and the way in which the tool is used in the service of specific methodologies, supported by a customizable hypermedia environment, and interoperable with other software tools. After presenting this approach, called Compendium, I present examples to illustrate the capabilities for template driven modeling for document generation, and IBIS-based indexing of and navigation around video records of meetings. I will conclude by describing how this work is transitioning into Cohere, a collaborative web platform for sensemaking and collective intelligence.
Key background articles: http://oro.open.ac.uk/3032 and http://oro.open.ac.uk/19554

BIO: Simon Buckingham Shum is Director of the Web 2.0 SocialLearn Project at the UK Open University, and Senior Lecturer at the Knowledge Media Institute, where he leads the Hypermedia Discourse Group. He brings a Human-Centred Computing perspective to the challenge of building argumentation support tools. His work helped to lay the foundations for the fields of Argument Visualization and Scholarly Discourse Modelling on the Web. He is a founding member of the Compendium Institute and ESSENCE Projects to promote usable argumentation tools.

The event will also feature shorter presentations from other requirements enthusiasts about their interests and work including Shamal Faily from the University of Oxford, our annual general meeting and of course free food and alcoholic beverages!

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