Cartoon Elicitation: Can Drawings Facilitate Interviews on Sensitive Topics?

Vectorization of Cartoon Drawings

Adding User-Editing to a Catalogue of Cartoon Drawings

This paper describes an ongoing project to enable user-editing on an existing online database of about 120,000 British newspaper cartoons at the University of Kent. It describes the cartoon catalogue itself and then describes how the online search website has been extended to allow users to edit catalogue records in a way that should be both safe and economical. Finally, it discusses the next s...

Discourse Analysis of Requirements and Knowledge Elicitation Interviews

This paper sets forth a framework for examining the discourse of interviews that take place during requirements analysis and knowledge elicitation. Research has shown that requirements and knowledge elicitation techniques are very similar if not identical in some instances. Moreover, eliciting user requirements is a critical and difficult activity of both information and knowledge based systems...

An Exploratory Study of Topic Importance in Requirements Elicitation Interviews

Interviewing stakeholders is a common way to elicit information about requirements of the system-to-be and the conditions in its operating environment. One difficulty in preparing and doing interviews is how to avoid missing the information that may be important to understand the requirements and environment conditions. Some information may remain implicit throughout the interview, if the inter...

Children's colour choices for completing drawings of affectively characterised topics.

BACKGROUND This study was designed to explore whether or not children systematically use particular colours when completing drawings of affectively characterised topics. METHOD Three hundred and thirty 4-11-year-old children were subdivided into three conditions, colouring in a drawing of a man, a dog, or a tree, respectively. The children completed two test sessions in counterbalanced order....