Cultural Influences on Requirement Engineering in Designing an LMS Prototype for Emerging Economies: A Papua New Guinea and Pacific Islands’ Case Study

Philemon Yalamu, Wendy Doube, Caslon Chua

2021

Abstract

This paper aims to determine from the users’ perspective that cultural factors are important in a software development requirement engineering process. It proposes that culture is an important factor in determining the success or failure of a system. Using the design thinking and human-centered approach, a case study to elicit user requirement and a user experiment were done which gathered data from university participants from Papua New Guinea (PNG) and other Pacific island nations. The gathered data was triangulated with four of the six cultural dimensions and three of the five core Requirement Engineering activities that were influenced. The results reveal 11 cultural factors specific to the indigenous culture of participants which were found to have an influence on RE activities; six were related to Hofstede’s cultural dimensions while five were unclassified, unique to PNG.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Yalamu P., Doube W. and Chua C. (2021). Cultural Influences on Requirement Engineering in Designing an LMS Prototype for Emerging Economies: A Papua New Guinea and Pacific Islands’ Case Study. In Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-758-508-1, pages 58-67. DOI: 10.5220/0010399800580067

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase21,
author={Philemon Yalamu and Wendy Doube and Caslon Chua},
title={Cultural Influences on Requirement Engineering in Designing an LMS Prototype for Emerging Economies: A Papua New Guinea and Pacific Islands’ Case Study},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2021},
pages={58-67},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0010399800580067},
isbn={978-989-758-508-1},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - Cultural Influences on Requirement Engineering in Designing an LMS Prototype for Emerging Economies: A Papua New Guinea and Pacific Islands’ Case Study
SN - 978-989-758-508-1
AU - Yalamu P.
AU - Doube W.
AU - Chua C.
PY - 2021
SP - 58
EP - 67
DO - 10.5220/0010399800580067