Integrating software engineering and user-centred design for multimedia software developments

The object-oriented modeling of interactive multimedia applications in the OMMMA approach is designed to enable multimedia software developers to create comprehensive analysis and design models of multimedia software. For development of highly usable multimedia applications, this approach must be embedded in a more holistic development process that takes a user-oriented perspective on multimedia software development. In this paper, we elaborate on the differences between user-centred design activities and object-oriented software design activities and outline their integration in a comprehensive development process.