Integrating adaptive user interface capabilities in enterprise applications

Abstract

Many existing enterprise applications are at a mature stage in their development and are unable to easily benefit from the usability gains offered by adaptive user interfaces (UIs). Therefore, a method is needed for integrating adaptive UI capabilities into these systems without incurring a high cost or significantly disrupting the way they function. This paper presents a method for integrating adaptive UI behavior in enterprise applications based on CEDAR, a model-driven, service-oriented, and tool-supported architecture for devising adaptive enterprise application UIs. The proposed integration method is evaluated with a case study, which includes establishing and applying technical metrics to measure several of the method's properties using the open-source enterprise application OFBiz as a test-case. The generality and flexibility of the integration method are also evaluated based on an interview and discussions with practitioners about their real-life projects.

Situation Analytics and Model-based User Interface Development: A Synergetic Approach for Building Runtime-Adaptive Business Applications

“…Some recent related approaches for adaptive user interfaces [28], [29] either focus on adaptation or migration to other devices and platforms, or also cover user-related context-adaptations.…”

Visual Simple Transformations

“…Hence, it becomes possible to define a transformation, by dragging and dropping visual constructs that are easy to understand. In a previous work, we used the Windows Workflow Foundation (WF) for adapting model-driven UIs [Akiki et al 2013b], [Akiki et al 2014]. The underlying workflow implementation of ViSiT is based on our previous experience with WF, but ViSiT is more general purpose and has visual constructs for specifying model transformations.…”

Engineering Adaptive Model-Driven User Interfaces

“…We have previously presented parts of this work including: [7], [14], [15], [16], [17], and [18], over the course of three years. This paper provides the first complete presentation of the technical underpinnings of our system, in addition to a comprehensive evaluation that covers both the technical and human perspectives.…”