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UMIST (University of Manchester Institute of Science and Technology) is one of the UK's leading research-oriented Universities.
The Department of Computation has four main research groups: Interactive Systems Design , Requirements & Software Engineering , Intelligent and Reactive Systems, and Decision & Data Engineering. End User Development focuses on the intersection of issues researched in the Software Engineering and Interactive Systems Design groups, which develop theories, models, methods and tools to improve the process and products of software development. The groups have an international reputation in both HCI and software engineering research, with strong links with industry for commercial uptake of academic research.
Research focuses upon understanding the process of communication in requirements, and how these are mediated by language and modelling representations. Some of the achievements of the groups include:
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multimedia user interface requirements research has developed design assistant tools and specifying guidelines now incorporated into the forthcoming ISO 14915 part 3 standard for multimedia user interface design |
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the e-Commerce Design group conducts research and business development activities informing the e-commerce design process, including business objects: enabling technologies; collaboration and e-commerce technologies; components for flexible systems; and consumer behaviour. The group has strong links to industry via the Centre for Expertise in Electronic Commerce (www.ceec.org.uk). |
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the EPSRC-funded Interdisciplinary Software Engineering Network (ISEN) involves three UK Universities in the discovery of new software development paradigms, including service-based software, informed by inputs from disciplines as diverse as Management, Law and Engineering. This is a continuation of the BT-funded Distributed Centre of Excellence in Software Engineering (DiCE), the work of which established a vision for software of the future - how it will behave, be structured and developed in the future. This vision includes core roles for end user development and ultra-rapid software delivery. |