Deliverable D3.7 - User requirements for the SHAPES platform

This Deliverable is the first iteration of the SHAPES Platform User Requirements (URs). It is thereby important to note that - following discussions within the consortium - this Deliverable deals with overall requirements to the platform and its operation in a multi‐country setting. Hence, the term user requirements (related to the functionalities of the platform) is partly misleading since the related task should also consider more general requirements, relating for example to the country‐specific legal and governance context or to ethical requirements. In order to specify these dimensions of requirements1, the main objective of the Deliverable was to suggest a first set of requirement dimensions and specifications. The methodology on how these were derived and the results are detailed in below. Overall, the requirements development methodology follows an iterative process comprising four steps which will also span across the 2nd and 3rd iteration of this Deliverable (finally due in M18):1) Information gathering on the context of users, particularly care givers and receivers 2) Identification of user needs as well as contextual requirement dimensions based on literature review 3) Envisioning and evaluation of requirements in collaboration with different stakeholder groups 4) Requirements specification based on the results of step 3).