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In this chapter, we present a piece of technical fiction, that is, a short story that tells how a group of users trying to coordinate action through Web and mobile applications got into serious problems. The aim of the story is to serve as a motivation and an illustration of our proposed approach to human-centered computing (HCC).
In spite of being a piece of fiction, our “software development story” is composed by episodes verified in use situations by one or more of the authors. Hence, the portrayed scenario is a realistic one. It provides a quick illustration of SigniFYI, the suite of tools to inspect meanings encoded in software design, which we introduce in Chap. 1 and will develop and discuss in Chaps. 3 and 4.
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Sieckenius de Souza, C., Fontoura de Gusmão Cerqueira, R., Marques Afonso, L., Rossi de Mello Brandão, R., Soares Jansen Ferreira, J. (2016). A Software Development Story. In: Software Developers as Users . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42831-4_2
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