Activity Taxonomy: Analysis of Proposals for Development of Interactive Systems

In developing an interactive system, the part of the design corresponding to the specification of the functionality is commonly directed by the requirements. The specifications of these requirements are based on templates that classify activity in a way that in most cases, developers are not conscious and therefore do not understand how wrong classification due to methodological weaknesses, affects the understanding that has the user in relation with the system he is using. An ideal situation is that the developer fully understands what the impact of wrong classification and helps him to recognize the limits to define a scope for usability, safety or any other aspect. Our proposal is to define an activity classification model and make explicit the need for it to serve as a framework to promote software quality mainly it has to do with the Human Computer Interaction (HCI).