Tracing the Scenarios in Scenario-Based Product Design: a study to support scenario generation

Irene Anggreeni, Mascha C. van der Voort

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    Abstract

    Scenario-based design originates from the human-computer interaction and software engineering disciplines, and continues to be adapted for product development. Product development differs from software development in the former’s more varied context of use, broader characteristics of users and more tangible solutions. The possible use of scenarios in product design is therefore broader and more challenging. Existing design methods that involve scenarios can be employed in many different stages of the product design process. However, there is no proficient overview that discusses a scenario-based product design process in its full extent. The purposes of creating scenarios and the evolution of scenarios from their original design data are often not obvious, although the results from using scenarios are clearly visible. Therefore, this paper proposes to classify possible scenario uses with their purpose, characteristics and supporting design methods. The classification makes explicit different types of scenarios and their relation to one another. Furthermore, novel scenario uses can be referred or added to the classification to develop it in parallel with the scenario-based design practice. Eventually, a scenario-based product design process could take inspiration for creating scenarios from the classification because it provides detailed characteristics of the scenarios
    Original languageUndefined
    Place of PublicationEnschede
    PublisherCentre for Telematics and Information Technology (CTIT)
    Number of pages44
    Publication statusPublished - 15 Oct 2007

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    PublisherCentre for Telematics and Information Technology, University of Twente
    No.TR-CTI
    ISSN (Print)1381-3625

    Keywords

    • EWI-11231
    • IR-64410

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