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Scenario Based Design

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Scenario design; Scenario-based design; User-centered design approaches.

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Scenario-based design is a validated and user-centered design approach, used early in the design process of a technology or product, which relies upon “scenarios” or stories to capture the elements of interaction between a person and a future product.

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Scenario-based design (SBD) refers to a family of validated user-centered design approaches that use “scenarios,” or stories, to inform the design of a technology or product. These scenarios are narratives, which may be in the form of text, storyboards, videos, etc. The scenarios are created and utilized to concretely define a user’s experience of an interaction with a technology, what happens during that interaction, and how it happens. Indeed, given that scenarios are like stories, they have characters, character goals and actions, and a plot within a larger setting. Through the use of scenarios, the use of the product becomes...

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  • Blythe, M. A., & Wright, P. C. (2006). Pastiche scenarios: Fiction as a resource for user centred design. Interacting with Computers, 18(5), 1139–1164. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.intcom.2006.02.001.

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  • Stiles-Shields, C., Montague, E., & Mohr, D. C. (2016). The use of scenario-based design for the development of behavioral intervention technologies. International Society for Research on Internet Interventions (ISRII) 8th scientific meeting, Washington, DC.

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  1. Loyola University, Chicago, IL, 60660, USA

    Colleen Stiles-Shields

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  1. University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida, USA

    Marc Gellman

  2. Campbell University School of Pharmacy, Buies Creek, North Carolina, USA

    J. Rick Turner

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  1. Dept. of Preventive Medicine, Northwestern University, 750 N Lake Shore Drive, 10th Floor, 60611, Chicago, IL, USA

    Emily Lattie

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Stiles-Shields, C. (2018). Scenario Based Design. In: Gellman, M., Turner, J. (eds) Encyclopedia of Behavioral Medicine. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-6439-6_101954-1

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