Articulating Socially Aware Design Artifacts And User Stories In The Conception Of The Opendesign Platform

Gathering and understanding requirements and features in a system play a central role in its acceptance and proper use. Unconventional systems involving uncertainties about their requirements demand methods that adequately support the capture of stakeholder's needs, desires and objectives. The OpenDesign project aims at supporting the design of computational solutions to wide-ranging problems under a holistic and socially-aware perspective through an open and collaborative platform. Designing this platform with a proper understanding of the desired features is for sure a hard task. In this paper, we investigate and characterize an ideation process to be used in situations involving uncertainties about requirements, as experienced in the OpenDesign Project. This process involves the collaborative construction of user stories, articulated with Socially Aware Design artifacts, created through participatory practices, as part of the platform design and prospection of potential uses of it. Based on the results, we organize the core concepts permeating the OpenDesign proposal, expressed in a map synthesizing its features.