Generating User Interface from Task, User and Domain Models

Abstract

Researchers have greatly studied the importance of automatic database user interface generation based on declarative models. The task, domain and user models are three important declarative models on which the user interface can be built. This paper then proposes a framework, i.e., a methodological process and a software prototype to drive the automatic database user interface design and code behind generation from the task, user and domain model combined together. This includes both the user interface and the sound and complete data update, definition and manipulation. The case study used in this paper is Translogistic, a project supported by the Walloon Region that aims to develop a highly capable, competitive and complete combined transport as well as a high value quality logistics.

UI generation from task, domain and user models

“…Once the programming language has been determined, the FIOs (Final Interaction Object) are created based on the CIOs. In order to specify the attributes of the UI objects, DB-USE uses the Mapping rules [9] base which defines the rules for making the associations between the tasks and domain's components, specifying the control type, location, dimension. In this phase, the UI Designer plays an important role, he has to make sure that the created UI objects are correct with respect to the goal of the tasks.…”

“…These rules are discussed in [9]. Besides using the rules above to determine the control type of the CIOs, the User model is also used to determine the control type which matches the preference of the endusers.…”

Embedding explicit representation of cyber-physical elements in task models

“…Manca et al propose a solution to handle objects in preconditions during the generation of the UI [10]. Tran et al propose a framework taking as input task, context and domain models to generate the UI [19]. In these approaches, as the UI is generated from the task models, there is a one-way connection between tasks and UI components.…”

The Design of Adaptive Interfaces for Enterprise Resource Planning Systems

“…User models are a critical component of any AUI as they provide the information necessary to adapt the user model between the different users (Tran et al, 2009). The proposed user model will contain a summary of the key elements that the ERP system will require in order to adapt the UI.…”