This process ideally involves end user involvement from the inception of research, starting with shaping of research questions, jointly making decisions on methodology, involvement in data collection, and tools development, and ends with the interpretation and dissemination of findings [ 25].
This approach is fully decentralized and has a strong end user involvement.
The critical role of end user involvement in the procedure development process is emphasized.
Experiences with WHEATMAN suggest that well designed software and a focused development team approach, good access to hardware and representative end user involvement are necessary requirements to help explain the comparative longevity of the project.
The goal of our work is to increase end user involvement in RE.
This section presents related work focusing on strengthening end user involvement in RE with the help of social software.
Researchers such as Maalej et al. [26,27] highlight the importance of end user involvement in today's software development projects.
Using an SNS-based RE approach in real-world settings could increase end user involvement in RE and support projects with a list of end user needs.
However, we would like to highlight that in our work we are focusing on the end user perspective, investigating how end user involvement can be strengthened in RE activities.
The change is taking place without any need for end user involvement, similar to other actions Amazon has taken in the past, such as when it switched on "AutoRip" functionality for CDs and vinyl, for example, automatically placing music files in users' online storage drives.
A 'continuum of complexity' of long-term end-user involvement in the project is described, and the stakeholder involvement method used – a co-design process – is outlined.
