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Publications, guidelines and methodologies have proliferated on usability engineering in the HCI literature while an extensive literature exists on methods in requirements engineering. Requirements analysis and usability are inextricably linked yet few methods exist to integrate the two approaches. In this paper we propose a framework for analysing requirements of systems and user interfaces, and report its use in requirements capture. Inadequacies resulting from the application of the framework are described leading to development of a method for requirements elaboration. Use of the method is illustrated by applying it retrospectively to the requirements capture exercise.
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Ryan, M., Sutcliffe, A. (1998). Analysing Requirements to Inform Design. In: Johnson, H., Nigay, L., Roast, C. (eds) People and Computers XIII. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-3605-7_9
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