End-User Development: An Emerging Paradigm

Abstract

Abstract. We think that over the next few years, the goal of interactive systems and services will evolve from just making systems easy to use (even though that goal has not yet been completely achieved) to making systems that are easy to develop by end users. By now, most people have become familiar with the basic functionality and interfaces of computers, but they are not able to manage any programming language. Therefore, they cannot develop new applications or modify current ones according to their needs.In order to address such challenges it is necessary a new paradigm, based on a multidisciplinary approach involving several types of expertise, such as software engineering, human-computer interaction, CSCW, which are now rather fragmented and with little interaction. The resulting methods and tools can provide results useful across many application domains, such as ERP, multi-device services (accessible through both mobile and stationary devices), and professional applications.Key words. tailorability, end user programming, flexibility, usabilityWe think that over the next few years, the goal of human-computer interaction (HCI) will evolve from just making systems easy to use (even though that goal has not yet been completely achieved) to making systems that are easy to develop. By now, most people have become familiar with the basic functionality and interfaces of computers. However, developing new or modified applications that effectively support users' goals still requires considerable expertise in programming that cannot be expected from most people. Thus, one fundamental challenge for the coming years is to develop environments that allow users who do not have background in programming to develop or modify their own applications, with the ultimate aim of empowering people to flexibly employ advanced information and communication technologies.Current trends in professional life, education, and also in leisure time are characterized by increasing change and diversity: changing work and business practices, individual qualifications and preferences, or changes in the dynamic environments in which organizations and individuals act. The diversity concerns people with different skills, knowledge, cultural background, and cognitive or physiological abilities, as well Henry Lieberman et al. (eds.), End User Development, 1-8. C 2006 Springer.

Web-centred end-user component modelling

“…However, almost all focus on spreadsheet-based EUD tools. Very few studies to date have focused on web-centred EUD tools for building RIAs, the most prominent being [15,16,13,14]. They propose improvements to existing EUD component models, some focusing on HCI improvements, such as tool user perception, error proneness, viscosity to change or correct component abstraction, and yet others on component improvement to cater for the tradeoffs between component specificity and generality for use in different domains.…”

“…This would help EUPs to solve their problem and reduce process viscosity. The feedback that we get after reviewing studies on this topic [41,42,15] is that EUD success factors are related to HCI factors and the specialization-functionality relationship. 2.…”

“…Number of components and elements: [15][16][17] An application is to be implemented that plans the best route between two points taking into account images captured by cameras monitored by the administration that manages the traffic in the user's city. In Spain, this traffic information is managed by the Directorate General of Traffic.…”

“…Pipes is confined to building mashups of data from RSS or HTML sources, whereas Kapow Platform specializes in building web portals using screen scraping techniques, and so on. The important thing, though, is that these WEUD solutions are promoting a new web component model [15] that has not yet, however, been either fully structured or formalized. The component models used in these tools, their strengths and generated products have not yet been studied in detail in order to define a comprehensive component model for the web.…”

A Preliminary Approach on Ontology-Based Visual Query Formulation for Big Data

“…[12]), where the goal is to allow end-users to program without significant programming skills and knowledge. The evaluation criteria are expressiveness, i.e., the breadth of a system or language to characterise the domain knowledge and information need, and usability, i.e., in terms of effectiveness, efficiency, and usersatisfaction (cf.…”