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COS70004 User-Centred Design - Swinburne University of Technology

Apply scholarly and evidence-based approaches to software requirements elicitation and specification.

Analyse software context of use (i.e., users, tasks and system environment) using a variety of models to identify user requirements.

Purpose: In this assessment piece will give you the opportunity to develop the ability to find and make use of evidence from scholarly sources (i.e., academic literature). You will also need to understand and analyse an unfamiliar domain. This is an independent research project.

Assignment

This Semester's UCD Project EnergyShifter is focused on developing an app to people un- derstand their energy use patterns and to help them schedule their energy use to save money. Although we have access to some interview data (see Doubtfire/4.1P/Resources/ UCD Project Interview Data) we do not have the resources to do a large scale study our- selves. Therefore, we are turning to the academic literature to help us find information that might help us design EnergyShifter.

Imagine your team wants to explore how they can get people to increase their energy sav- ings. One potential issue is people not understanding how energy shifting works. Your task for this assignment is to review Brewer, Verdezoto, Holst and Rasmussen's (2015) paper on using gamification to help people understand and use energy shifting.

What can be learned from their research that might help us develop a user interface for En- ergyShifter?

Brewer, R S, Verdezoto, N, Holst, T & Rasmussen, M K 2015, 'Tough shift: Explor- ing the complexities of shifting residential electricity use through a casual mobile game'. Proceedings of the 2015 Annual Symposium on Computer-Human Interac- tion in Play, pp. 307-317.

You may also find these papers helpful:

Brewer, R S, Verdezoto, N, Rasmussen, M K., Entwistle, J M, Grønbæk, K, Blunck, H & Holst, T 2015, 'Challenge: Getting residential users to shift their electricity us- age patterns'. Proceedings of the 2015 ACM Sixth International Conference on Fu- ture Energy Systems, 83-88.

Sweeney, J C, Kresling, J, Webb, D, Soutar, G N & Mazzarol, T 2013, 'Energy sav- ing behaviours: Development of a practice-based model'. Energy Policy, 61, pp. 371-381.

Suggested Assignment Structure
Title page:
Include
• Unit code and narne
• Asvgnrnent
• Your name
• Tutor's name
• Word count Executive Summary Overview of report and key recommendations (less than 200 words)
Table of Contents
Make sure you use heading styles and use your word processor to autogenerate your table of contents.
1 Introduction
In this section include.
• Background information including purpose of report definition of any key terms or co, cep.
In this section include:
• Evidence from your literature research
• Logically organised sub-sections
3 Conclusion and Recommendations
In this section
• summarise main ideas, key findings a. recommendations

Note: Focus should Be On Brewer tough shift paper

Attachment:- User-Centred Design.rar