This work is concerned with an investigation of verb associations, i.e., the words spontaneously called to mind in response to a given stimulus verb. We performed an elicitation task where native speakers were asked to spontaneously list semantic associations for a list of Italian verbs. Starting from the assumption that the associations reflect highly salient linguistic and conceptual features...

In this paper we describe a long-term effort to raise the awareness of IT practitioners in the Swiss French region to the value of ethnographic observation techniques for requirements elicitation. This effort brought together academia and industry. Several awareness raising sessions were designed and delivered to IT practitioners in industry events. We used an active pedagogy, designing role-pl...

We address the problem of specifying a voting rule by means of a series of examples. Each example consists of the answer to a simple question: how should the rule rank two alternatives, given the positions at which each voter ranks the two alternatives? To be able to formalise this elicitation problem, we develop a novel variant of classical social choice theory in terms of associations of alte...

The objective of this paper is to empirically evaluate SKLSEForum, a lightweight forum-based tool, for predicting the likelihood of acceptance of the tool in requirements elicitation practice and finding directions for improvement. We analyzed three data sets from a family of experiments, deriving from two replicated controlled experiments and a survey of expert panel. Results showed that SKLSE...

Requirements elicitation has been recognized as a critical stage in system development projects, yet current models prescribing particular elicitation techniques are still limited in their development and application. This research reviews efforts aimed at addressing this, and synthesizes a common structure consisting of project contingencies, elicitation techniques, logic of fit, and a success...

When a quantitative student model is constructed, one of the first tasks to perform is to identify the domain concepts assessed. In general, this task is easily done by the domain experts. In addition, the model may include some misconceptions which are also identified by these experts. Identifying these misconceptions is a difficult task, however, and one which requires considerable previous e...