Method Assisted Requirements Elicitation for Context Aware Computing for the Field Force

Context Aware Mobile Computing is an emerging strategic technology for enterprises. Context is highly dynamic in mobile environments; if fully utilized, it can bring substantial improvements in the productivity of an enterprise. Context aware mobile applications are fast becoming part of the mobile workforce of organizations. Enterprises are transformed into real time enterprises through mobile applications. Formation of new software engineering techniques requires the understanding of mobile as a pervasive device for computing, new ways of working and the usage of context in daily computing specifically in mobile environments. Developing context aware mobile applications of such nature require a rethinking of the software engineering techniques. The pervasive systems due to their properties and taxonomy require development of new requirement elicitation techniques. Since pervasive computing is a very broad subject the target of this research is to develop methods for requirements elicitation techniques for field force in various domains. This paper presents a method for using the requirement elicitation technique for the development of context aware mobile application for field force.

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