Evaluating a moLIC extension for collaborative systems design
Luiz Gustavo de Souza, Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, Tayana Uchôa Conte · 2015
Collaborative Systems go beyond user-system interaction, allowing users to cooperate, coordinate and communicate with each other through the system. This kind of system has brought new issues and challenges for research in several fields, including interaction design, as many works proposed ways to facilitate the process of designing for collaboration. To support model-based design for collaborative systems, we propose an extension for the Modeling Language for Interaction as Conversation (MoLIC), allowing designers to represent user influences, cooperative tasks and awareness mechanisms to design collaboration. In this paper, we present a case study to evaluate the MoLIC extension during interpretation and design tasks applied with 12 undergraduate students. Results points to a good acceptance of the extension, but defects introduced in the models indicate that some concepts were not very easy to understand as presented to participants.