Erfahrungen mit dem einsatz anwendungsspezifischer piktogramme zur partizipativen anforderungsanalyse

The experience gained in a project in the domain of hospital information systems is discussed in the present paper. Particularly, we emphasize the use of techniques for participatory requirements analysis and the achieved user's traceability from the elicited requirements towards the realized system. A central concern is the general use of application-specific pictograms in requirements modeling and in the implementation of the graphical user interfaces, whereby early prototyping for evaluating the elicited requirements plays an important role