Desenvolvimento de um software mobile com crianças em domínio educacional: uma perspectiva de engenharia de software

Abstract

The use of digital technologies has become indispensable in people's daily lives, including children. Although there are works in the literature reporting the involvement of this audience of users in the development of software for its use with the support of Participatory Design practices, these works do not make explicit some Software Engineering practices such as a focus on quality, processes, methods and tools. Participatory Design allows users to collaborate directly in the development of technologies for their use, bringing as benefits the quality of the final product from their perspective, a better acceptance of the generated product and the exchange of experiences. Software Engineering, on the other hand, guides software development in a systematic way with an emphasis on the quality of the final product. This work has the general objective of developing a mobile software involving the participation of children in the educational domain, based on the layered model proposed by Pressman and Maxim (2016). This work was carried out in a qualitative research approach, in an exploratory study format, integrating Participatory Design with Software Engineering in three stages: Introduction to Project and Research, Requirements Engineering and Iterative Development. Among the results obtained, we highlight the following: use of the layered model as a basis for the development stages of this work; the development and application of an approach with children to gather and validate requirements and product; the application of Participatory Design as a Software Engineering process for the development of mobile software for/with children in an educational environment.