Design Requirements for Recommendations in End-User User Interface Design

Abstract

User interface design has become increasingly difficult due to the rise of new kinds of electronic devices and the emergence of the Internet of Things (IoT). Further, user interface (UI) designers struggle to adapt their UIs to evolving user needs and preferences. In order to address these issues, we want to support end users in designing their own user interfaces. However, end-user UI design represents a major challenge, given that end users often lack the necessary design skills. We investigated how design recommendations might be used to address the research question on how to help end users during the UI design process? A first step towards answering this question is the analysis of how end users should best get recommendations about potential design improvements. We therefore conducted a survey on how end users would like to get design recommendations, whether they trust user-or machinegenerated recommendations, and whether they agree that their interactions are tracked and shared in order to improve the recommendations. Based on the results of our survey, we present a set of design requirements for the integration of recommendations in end-user UI design tools.

Software assistants in software engineering: A systematic mapping study

“…This same study shares our observations, that there is a lack of works that address the use of other interaction techniques and media (voice, touch, and the use of social media and crowdsourcing technologies) to design assistance systems. The paper from Sanctorum et al 71 investigates several aspects of recommendation systems for EUSE, that we also extracted in our study. This is especially the case for HCI indicators such as the nature of the output, the explanation of the recommendations, or the ability to provide feedback about the result.…”