Preliminary Empirical Study

• Systems developed by 4th year students & delivered in two stages: prototype and final delivery

information science students focussed on programming & design students concentrated on content and interface development

• 45 observations recorded in media component development

• No correlation between development effort and either of the component variables - media type and media status. Screen authoring had insufficient data

Since data sets were small, generalizations were not possible and minimal insights into effort modeling for MSS obtained