Speculative Requirements: Design Fiction and RE

Andy Darby; Emmanuel Tsekleves; Peter Sawyer

doi:10.1109/RE.2018.00-20

Speculative Requirements: Design Fiction and RE

Andy Darby, Emmanuel Tsekleves, Peter Sawyer

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Abstract

Many innovative software products are conceived, developed and deployed without any conventional attempt to elicit stakeholder requirements. Rather, they are the result of the vision and intuition of a small number of creative individuals who perceive a market opportunity that has been facilitated by the emergence of a new technology. In this paper we consider how the conditions that enable new products' emergence might be better anticipated, making innovations a little less reliant on individual vision and a little more informed by stakeholder need. We contend that this is particularly important where just-over-the-horizon technology would have the potential for social impact, good or bad. Speculative design describes a basket of techniques that seek to explore this landscape. We focus particularly on one of these, design fiction, and describe a case study where it was used to explore how plausible new technologies might impact on dementia care.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	2018 IEEE 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	388-393
Number of pages	6
ISBN (Electronic)	978-1-5386-7418-5
ISBN (Print)	978-1-5386-7419-2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/RE.2018.00-20
Publication status	Published - 15 Oct 2018
Event	IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference - Banff Conference Centre, Banff, Canada Duration: 20 Aug 2018 → 24 Aug 2018 Conference number: 26 http://www.re18.org/

Publication series

Name	2018 IEEE 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE)
Publisher	IEEE
ISSN (Print)	1090-705X
ISSN (Electronic)	2332-6441

Conference

Conference	IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference
Abbreviated title	RE 2018
Country/Territory	Canada
City	Banff
Period	20/08/18 → 24/08/18
Internet address	http://www.re18.org/

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Keywords

requirements elicitation
design fiction
speculative design
design thinking
creativity

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Darby, A, Tsekleves, E & Sawyer, P 2018, Speculative Requirements: Design Fiction and RE. in 2018 IEEE 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE). 2018 IEEE 26th International Requirements Engineering Conference (RE), IEEE, pp. 388-393, IEEE International Requirements Engineering Conference, Banff, Canada, 20/08/18. https://doi.org/10.1109/RE.2018.00-20

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