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Learn how to utilize storyboarding as a powerful elicitation technique to gather and communicate requirements effectively. Explore different storyboard types and advantages for creating innovative content.
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Storyboarding Steve Chenoweth & Chandan Rupakheti RHIT Chapters 13, Requirements Text and storyboarding web article
Outline • Background • Barriers to Elicitation • Techniques • Brainstorming • Storyboarding Today’s second topic
Story • Who are the players? • What do they do? • How do they do it?
Get the idea from some Storyboard Examples • More movies --This one’s from Blade Runner • In the movie industry, storyboarders don’t think they get enough credit – See www.tipjar.com/dan/colomba.htm
Another Storyboard Example • More movies – Ace Ventura: When Nature Calls Storyboard from Storyboarding 101, by James O. Fraioli. Michael Weise Productions, 2000, ISBN 0-941188-25-6.
Google Chrome • http://www.google.com/googlebooks/chrome/
Key Points • Purpose – Elicit “Yes, But” reactions • Storyboards should be sketchy • A place to add innovative content
Storyboard Types • Passive • Rough Sketches, screen shots • Active • Flash movie, linked PowerPoint presentation. • Interactive • Realistic, and a live prototype
Advantages of Storyboards • Inexpensive • User friendly, informal, interactive • Provides an early review of user interfaces of the system • Easy to create and easy to modify
Scenarios • Scenario is a narrative describing foreseeable interactions of types of users (characters) and the system or between two software component • Used in usability research • Famous example • As we may think? - Vannevar Bush • See website http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1945/07/as-we-may-think/303881/
Extra Credit • Extra Credit: Read the “As we may think” article and write a report on it with special emphasis on the use of scenarios to describe a vision and your perspective on it. (Lessons - Extra Credit - Week 2 - As we may think) Due Monday, September 23 Class Time