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RBUIS: simplifying enterprise application user interfaces through engineering role-based adaptive behavior

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Pierre A. Akiki,

Arosha K. Bandara,

Yijun YuAuthors Info & Claims

EICS '13: Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems

Pages 3 - 12

https://doi.org/10.1145/2494603.2480297

Published: 24 June 2013 Publication History

Abstract

Enterprise applications such as customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) are very large scale, encompassing millions of lines-of-code and thousands of user interfaces (UI). These applications have to be sold as feature-bloated off-the-shelf products to be used by people with diverse needs in required feature-set and layout preferences based on aspects such as skills, culture, etc. Although several approaches have been proposed for adapting UIs to various contexts-of-use, little work has focused on simplifying enterprise application UIs through engineering adaptive behavior. We define UI simplification as a mechanism for increasing usability through adaptive behavior by providing users with a minimal feature-set and an optimal layout based on the context-of-use. In this paper we present Role-Based UI Simplification (RBUIS), a tool supported approach based on our CEDAR architecture for simplifying enterprise application UIs through engineering role-based adaptive behavior. RBUIS is integrated in our general-purpose platform for developing adaptive model-driven enterprise UIs. Our approach is validated from the technical and end-user perspectives by applying it to developing a prototype enterprise application and user-testing the outcome.

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RBUIS: simplifying enterprise application user interfaces through engineering role-based adaptive behavior
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Interaction design
    1. Interaction design process and methods
      1. User centered design
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Domain specific languages
    2. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments
  2. Software organization and properties
    1. Software system structures
      1. Software architectures

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