Interdisciplinary Design Patterns for Socially Aware Computing

The success of software applications that collect and process personal data does not only depend on technical aspects, but is also linked to social compatibility and user acceptance. It requires experts from different disciplines to ensure legal compliance, to foster the users´ trust, to enhance the usability of the application and to finally realize the application. Multidisciplinary requirements have to be formulated, interwoven and implemented. We advocate the use of interdisciplinary design patterns that capture the design know-how of typical, recurring features in socially aware applications with particular concern for socio-technical requirements. The proposed patterns address interdisciplinary concerns in a tightly interwoven manner and are intended to facilitate the development of accepted and acceptable applications that in particular deal with sensitive user context information.