Designs Can Talk: A Case of Feedback for Design Evolution in Assistive Technology

Requirements engineers gain insights and make improvements on their requirements specifications, as they are applied in natural contexts. Software artifacts are particularly useful requirements instantiations because feedback can be obtained directly from software. Software talks to its designers about its requirements.

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