The User Group is an external team to the project which will help the user partners to evaluate specification of ASSO software modules, prototypes and documentation.

In ASSO, the users will be involved from the beginning to the end of the project following a continuous evaluation based on UCD (“User Centred Design”) methodology. They will define data type and problems. They will work with experts on methods to suggest methodology. They will evaluate permanently the progress of the project and prototypes. They will evaluate the final product with benchmarks.

The User Group members will be preferentially connected to the project as consultants of the needs and requirements to be considered and discussed in the development of it.