Um processo de desenvolvimento de software para/com crianças: integração entre engenharia de software e interação humano-computador

Abstract

Children are potential users of digital technologies as much as adults. There are several experiences described in the literature of children’s involvement in software development to their use. However, these experiences do not show any Software Engineering approach. Although it is possible to identify works that integrate Human-Computer Interaction to Software Engineering, only the area of Human-Computer Interaction has shown significant contributions to the software development for/with children. This work aims to propose a software development process for/with children, integrating Software Engineering and Human-Computer Interaction methods, techniques and practices, to support researchers and software developers. In this way, we purpose modeling, with the BPMN notation, a process of software development for/with children, with the support of techniques such as participant observation, meetings, interviews and documental analysis. As the result of this work, there is a software development process model for/with children, resulting from the analysis of four exploratory studies and validated with the team from the research project Inclusive Design for/with Children and Teenagers of Communication and Information Digital Technologies (DICA-TDIC). This model can be adopted as a reference for the development of software with children in new projects.