Engineering the authoring of usable service front ends

Paternò, Fabio; Santoro, Carmen; Spano, Lucio Davide

doi:10.1016/j.jss.2011.05.025

Cited by 27 publications

(25 citation statements)

References 21 publications

(28 reference statements)

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Unclassified

Order By: Relevance

“…For specifying interactive software systems based on Web services, MARIAE [13] uses CTT (Concur Task Tree) models. MARIAE focuses on the UI generation for such a system, but the system as a whole cannot be made available as a composed service.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stateful SOA-conformant Services as Building Blocks for Interactive Software Systems

Popp

Kaindl

2017

Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2017)

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Services implemented through information and communication technology need to provide value for customers, with whom they usually have non-trivial interaction. However, user interface and (Web) service specifications are often disconnected. The most widely used Web services are stateless, hence only trivial user interaction with one-step input and output can be embedded in such a service. Remembering the state is a prerequisite for implementing nontrivial user interaction with a service. We present new stateful SOA-conformant services as building blocks for interactive software systems. This new kind of service has a unified high-level protocol both for (non-trivial) user interaction with a machine and for machine-machine communication. Services with the same protocol can substitute each other (also dynamically at runtime), whether they are machine or user services. Using such services as building blocks, interactive software systems can be composed, also recursively. As a matter of fact, from such service specifications (graphical) user interfaces for non-trivial interaction can be automatically generated.

show abstract

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Stateful SOA-conformant Services as Building Blocks for Interactive Software Systems

Popp

Kaindl

2017

Proceedings of the 50th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences (2017)

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“… Identification of Presentation Task Sets (which are sets of tasks associated with the presentations in the user interface logical descriptions), with the support of some heuristics to merge them [8];…”

Section: Handling Preconditions At the Various Abstraction Levelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In the refinement process, we exploit two concepts: Presentation Task Sets (PTSs) [8] and conditional connections. Tasks enabled over the same period of time according to the temporal constraints indicated in the task model are grouped into PTSs.…”

Section: Handling Preconditions At the Various Abstraction Levelsmentioning

confidence: 99%

See 1 more Smart Citation

Considering task pre-conditions in model-based user interface design and generation

Manca

Paternò

Santoro

et al. 2014

Proceedings of the 2014 ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

Self Cite

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Deriving meaningful and consistent user interface implementations from task models is not trivial because of the large gap in terms of abstraction. This paper focuses on how to handle task preconditions in the design and generation process, an issue which has not adequately been addressed in previous work. We present a solution that is able to manage the information related to task preconditions at the various possible abstraction levels. The paper also reports on some example applications that show the generality of the solution and how it can be exploited in various cases.

show abstract

“…There are three layers at which SC can operate: the application layer, the service layer, and the presentation layer [8]. Our work is not specifically aimed at any one of these layers.…”

Section: End-user Service Compositionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Establishing requirements for End-user Service Composition tools

Ridge

O’Neill

2014

Requirements Eng

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

End-user Service Composition (EUSC) is defined as service composition where the person who creates the composite service also uses it. We derived requirements for EUSC tools using a custom method based on the scenario-based requirements analysis method. Ten participants were given scenarios, a demonstrator application and examples of EUSC tools before being interviewed. Analysing their responses, we elicited 139 requirements across topics including service ''types'' (e.g. pervasive services), composition flow (i.e. control/data flow) and the use of templates in composition. This is the first published work to have used a robust requirements analysis method in EUSC, adapted specifically to take account of prior work on EUSC. Some of our requirements validate those found in prior research or current EUSC tools but many are unique to our findings. The requirements found in this work inform and inspire the development of future EUSC tools, and the methodology is easily adapted for application in other domains.

show abstract

Engineering the authoring of usable service front ends

Cited by 27 publications

References 21 publications

Stateful SOA-conformant Services as Building Blocks for Interactive Software Systems

Stateful SOA-conformant Services as Building Blocks for Interactive Software Systems

Considering task pre-conditions in model-based user interface design and generation

Establishing requirements for End-user Service Composition tools

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About