Rapidly Modifying Multiple user Interfaces of One Application - Leveraging Multi-level Dialogue Refinement

An increasing demand for supporting users in diverse contexts of use, e.g., depending on interaction device and primary task, results in new challenges for User Interface (UI) development. Two key challenges are: how to create these multiple UIs for one application (creation challenge), and how to consistently modify them (modification challenge). The creation challenge has been addressed in various works utilizing automatic UI generation. We present our approach (Dialogue Refinement) and its tool-support to address the modification challenge by allowing one modification to be applied to multiple UIs at once

Towards Integrating Usability and Software Engineering Using the Mapache Approach

The recent success of various Apple products affirms that usability engi- neering can be a beneficial asset in software product development. But considerable problems exist in integrating usability engineering and software engineering. In this paper, we argue that the technical basis – the disciplines’ artifacts and used tools – are a potential hurdle for integration. Model-driven development (MDD) is put forward to address these problems. The Mapache approach persued in our research specializes MDD for User Interface (UI) engineering. Four of its concepts are discussed in the light of integrating usability and software engineering

A Methodology for Model-Driven Development of Crisis Management Applications using Solverational

Efficient usage of applications often requires context-aware applications. We assume that context-aware adaption can be useful in the case of crisis management tools as well, where fast responses are crucial and can be supported by information technology. A small user study performed with a crisis response team mostly composed of fireman supports our assumptions for the important case of role-aware messaging applications. We demonstrate our way to develop context-aware user interfaces using our model-to-model transformation language with constraint solving and apply it to the case of a crisis management system

Usability Aware Model Driven Development of User Interfaces

We propose an approach how to develop and integrate usability metrics in (multimodal) dialog systems and user interfaces with Model Driven Software Development (MDSD). It enables the developer to start early with simple metrics and allows him to refine them during the ongoing work. Additinally, we show how the resulting metrics can be used to estimate the usability in advance, so that the developer may care about critical parts of the application before testing it