TY - GEN
T1 - Digital addiction
T2 - 20th International Working Conference on Requirements Engineering: Foundation for Software Quality, REFSQ 2014
AU - Alrobai, Amen
AU - Phalp, Keith
AU - Ali, Raian
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - [Context and motivation] Digital Addiction, (hereafter referred to as DA), has become a serious issue that has a diversity of socio-economic side effects. [Question/problem] In spite of its high importance, DA got little recognition or guidance as to how software engineering should take it into account. This is in stark contrast to other domains known for traditional addiction (e.g., drugs, gambling, and alcohol) in which there are clear rules and policies on how to manufacture, market and sell the products. [Principal ideas/results] In this position paper, we suggest that software engineering in general and requirements engineering in particular need to consider DA as a first class concept in developing software systems. [Contribution] As an early step in this area, we conduct an empirical investigation of DA by reviewing the literature and analysing web discussion forums on the topic and use that to design a mind-map of its main causes. We also provide a basic model to articulate the DA problem from requirements perspective and elaborate research challenges for a future work.
AB - [Context and motivation] Digital Addiction, (hereafter referred to as DA), has become a serious issue that has a diversity of socio-economic side effects. [Question/problem] In spite of its high importance, DA got little recognition or guidance as to how software engineering should take it into account. This is in stark contrast to other domains known for traditional addiction (e.g., drugs, gambling, and alcohol) in which there are clear rules and policies on how to manufacture, market and sell the products. [Principal ideas/results] In this position paper, we suggest that software engineering in general and requirements engineering in particular need to consider DA as a first class concept in developing software systems. [Contribution] As an early step in this area, we conduct an empirical investigation of DA by reviewing the literature and analysing web discussion forums on the topic and use that to design a mind-map of its main causes. We also provide a basic model to articulate the DA problem from requirements perspective and elaborate research challenges for a future work.
KW - Digital Addiction
KW - Requirements Engineering
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/84958533003
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-319-05843-6_9
DO - 10.1007/978-3-319-05843-6_9
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:84958533003
SN - 9783319058429
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 112
EP - 118
BT - Requirements Engineering
PB - Springer Verlag
Y2 - 7 April 2014 through 10 April 2014
ER -