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In today's digitized world, software systems must support users in understanding both how to interact with a system and why certain behaviors occur. This study investigates whether explanation needs, classified from user reviews, can be…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-08-21 Martin Obaidi , Kushtrim Qengaj , Jakob Droste , Hannah Deters , Marc Herrmann , Jil Klünder , Elisa Schmid , Kurt Schneider

One of the open questions in the field of interaction design is "what inputs or interaction techniques should be used with augmented reality devices?" The transition from a touchpad and a keyboard to a multi-touch device was relatively…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2021-05-28 Adam S. Williams , Francisco R. Ortega

We investigate the application of classification techniques to utility elicitation. In a decision problem, two sets of parameters must generally be elicited: the probabilities and the utilities. While the prior and conditional probabilities…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-01 Urszula Chajewska , Lise Getoor , Joseph Norman , Yuval Shahar

Requirements elicitation can be very challenging in projects that require deep domain knowledge about the system at hand. As analysts have the full control over the elicitation process, their lack of knowledge about the system under study…

Computers and Society · Computer Science 2018-07-18 Zahra Shakeri Hossein Abad , Munib Rahman , Abdullah Cheema , Vincenzo Gervasi , Didar Zowghi , Ken Barker

The success or failure of a project is highly related to recognizing the right stakeholders and accurately finding and discovering their requirements. However, choosing the proper elicitation technique was always a considerable challenge…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Ali Fallahi , Amineh Amini , Azam Bastanfard , Hadi Saboohi

Eliciting information to reduce uncertainty about a latent entity is a critical task in many application domains, e.g., assessing individual student learning outcomes, diagnosing underlying diseases, or learning user preferences. Though…

Computation and Language · Computer Science 2025-07-10 Jimmy Wang , Thomas Zollo , Richard Zemel , Hongseok Namkoong

Nowadays, cognitive service provides more interactive way to understand users' requirements via human-machine conversation. In other words, it has to capture users' requirements from their utterance and respond them with the relevant and…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2022-03-30 Bolin Zhang , Zhiying Tu , Yunzhe Xu , Dianhui Chu , Xiaofei Xu

In today's digitalized world, where software systems are becoming increasingly ubiquitous and complex, the quality aspect of explainability is gaining relevance. A major challenge in achieving adequate explanations is the elicitation of…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2025-06-23 Hannah Deters , Laura Reinhardt , Jakob Droste , Martin Obaidi , Kurt Schneider

Explainability has become a crucial non-functional requirement to enhance transparency, build user trust, and ensure regulatory compliance. However, translating explanation needs expressed in user feedback into structured requirements and…

Several approaches have been presented, which aim to extract models from natural language specifications. These approaches have inherent weaknesses for they assume an initial problem understanding that is perfect, and they leave no room for…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-10-24 Vasiliy Seibert

Client-designer alignment is crucial to the success of design projects, yet little research has explored how digital technologies might influence this alignment. To address this gap, this paper presents a three-phase study investigating how…

Human-Computer Interaction · Computer Science 2025-06-16 Daniel Hove Paludan , Julie Fredsgård , Kasper Patrick Bährentz , Ilhan Aslan

Decision theory has become widely accepted in the AI community as a useful framework for planning and decision making. Applying the framework typically requires elicitation of some form of probability and utility information. While much…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2013-02-08 Vu A. Ha , Peter Haddawy

Elicitation interviews are the most common requirements elicitation technique, and proficiency in conducting these interviews is crucial for requirements elicitation. Traditional training methods, typically limited to textbook learning, may…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2024-06-18 Binnur Görer , Fatma Başak Aydemir

Current crowdsourcing platforms provide little support for worker feedback. Workers are sometimes invited to post free text describing their experience and preferences in completing tasks. They can also use forums such as Turker Nation1 to…

Databases · Computer Science 2018-01-11 Mohammadreza Esfandiari , Senjuti Basu Roy , Sihem Amer-Yahia

Requirements are key artefacts to describe the intended purpose of a software system. The quality of requirements is crucial for deciding what to do next, impacting the development process's effectiveness and efficiency. However, we know…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2022-11-14 Emil Lind , Javier Gonzalez-Huerta , Emil Alégroth

Mobile applications have become an inseparable part of people's daily life. Nonetheless, the market competition is extremely fierce, and apps lacking recognition among most users are susceptible to market elimination. To this end,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2023-11-28 Shiqi Duan , Jianxun Liu , Yong Xiao , Xiangping Zhang

This paper explores the needs and expectations of educational stakeholders for AI (Artificial Intelligence)-enhanced learning environments. Data was collected following two-phased participatory workshops. The first workshop outlined…

Decision making and requirements scoping occupy central roles in helping to develop products that are demanded by the customers and ensuring company strategies are accurately realized in product scope. Many companies experience continuous…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-11-15 Krzysztof Wnuk , Markus Borg , Sardar Muhammad Sulaman

The requirements elicited from stakeholders are typically informal, incomplete, ambiguous, and inconsistent. It is the task of Requirements Engineering to transform them into an eligible (formal, sufficiently complete, unambiguous,…

Software Engineering · Computer Science 2016-05-10 Feng-Lin Li , Alexander Borgida , Giancarlo Guizzardi , Jennifer Horkoff , Lin Liu , John Mylopoulos

Fuzzy constraints are a popular approach to handle preferences and over-constrained problems in scenarios where one needs to be cautious, such as in medical or space applications. We consider here fuzzy constraint problems where some of the…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2009-09-25 Mirco Gelain , Maria Pini , Francesca Rossi , Brent Venable , Toby Walsh