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Virtual Multi-User Software Prototypes III

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In design thinking and software engineering, prototypes play a crucial role in validating insights, needs and requirements. Still, the effort necessary to create these prototypes depends on multiple factors such as the number of people involved with the design thinking project. Especially for multi-user software systems, the effort of creating validation artifacts is too high to be feasible for multiple iterations, thus, inhibiting design thinkers to inexpensively try different ideas early and often. To overcome this problem, we investigated the usability and feasibility of virtual prototypes – animated simulations of formal models which can be derived automatically without additional costs. This paper reports on our advances during the 3 years of the design thinking research project concerned with Virtual Multi-User Software Prototypes.

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Acknowledgements

The authors are grateful for the input of Alexander Renneberg (D-LABS GmbH), Nico Rehwaldt, Henrik Steudel, Alexander Lüders, Stefan Kleff, Stefan Richter, Ralf Teusner, Christoph Kühnl and Jonathan A. Edelman.

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  1. System Analysis and Modeling Group, Hasso Plattner Institute for IT Systems Engineering, University of Potsdam, Prof.-Dr.-Helmert-Street 2-3, D-14482, Potsdam, Germany

    Gregor Gabrysiak, Holger Giese (Principal Investigator) & Thomas Beyhl

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Gabrysiak, G., Giese, H., Beyhl, T. (2012). Virtual Multi-User Software Prototypes III. In: Plattner, H., Meinel, C., Leifer, L. (eds) Design Thinking Research. Understanding Innovation. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-31991-4_15

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