Exploring the use of

Concept Mapping to

facilitate Interaction

Design ProcessesIlya Shmorgun

Interaction design in

the context of

software engineering

Lack of a transversal

technique to support

interaction design processes

through various stages

Is there a technique, which

can be used to support

interaction design processes

through various stages?

Supporting

• Elicitation

• Communication

• Representation

• Adaptation

Concept Mapping

• Applied in education, government and

business

• Easily understood by both school

children and researchers

• Presents information in a visual and

structured way

• Surfaces strengths and weaknesses of

ideas

Technique

• Easy to understand

• Flexible

• Adaptable to specific context

• Not limited by any particular field

Case Studies

• Several projects conducted over a

course of 8 months

• Designing various prototypes of mobile

applications

mTLU

The Problem

How to make studies

related information

available through a

mobile device?

Application Concept

Provide Studies

Related Information

through a Mobile

Application

Concept Maps

Drawbacks

• Concept maps do not easily scale

• A lot of nodes make a concept map

difficult to read

Future Developments

Explore whether concept mapping

can be used to provide similar

support to state transition diagrams

with the aim of representing an

application’s logic

ilya.shmorgun@gmail.co

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