Multi-device UI Development for Task-Continuous Cross-Channel Web Applications

Yigitbas, Enes; Kern, Thomas; Urban, Patrick; Sauer, Stefan

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-46963-8_10

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“…It makes use of an Abstract UI Model and a Domain Model which are then transformed by a code generator (UI Generator) into a Final UI. This development path has been subject of extensive research [28], and we already presented the realization and application of an MDUID approach for different target platforms, e.g., smartphone, desktop, and self-service systems [37,38] based on the OMG standard IFML. The first development path supports efficient development of heterogeneous UIs for different target platforms.…”

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“…The models are then delegated to the corresponding subgenerators. Based on the IFML and Domain Model, the subgenerator As the generation of the Final UIs is a common task in existing model-driven UI development approaches (see, for example, [37]), in the following, we focus on and describe the implementation of the generation process responsible for automatically creating the Context and Adaptation Services. The interplay of those generated services within the execution environment is essential to support UI adaptation at runtime.…”

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Integrated model-driven development of self-adaptive user interfaces

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Modern user interfaces (UIs) are increasingly expected to be plastic, in the sense that they retain a constant level of usability, even when subjected to context changes at runtime. Self-adaptive user interfaces (SAUIs) have been promoted as a solution for context variability due to their ability to automatically adapt to the context-of-use at runtime. The development of SAUIs is a challenging and complex task as additional aspects like context management and UI adaptation have to be covered. In classical model-driven UI development approaches, these aspects are not fully integrated and hence introduce additional complexity as they represent crosscutting concerns. In this paper, we present an integrated model-driven development approach where a classical model-driven development of UIs is coupled with a model-driven development of context-of-use and UI adaptation rules. We base our approach on the core UI modeling language IFML and introduce new modeling languages for contextof-use (ContextML) and UI adaptation rules (AdaptML). The generated UI code, based on the IFML model, is coupled with the context and adaptation services, generated from the ContextML and AdaptML model, respectively. The integration of the generated artifacts, namely UI code, context, and adaptation services in an overall rule-based execution environment, enables runtime UI adaptation. The benefit of our approach is demonstrated by two case studies, showing the development of SAUIs for different application scenarios and a usability study which has been conducted to analyze end-user satisfaction of SAUIs.

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Integrated model-driven development of self-adaptive user interfaces

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“…In this section, we recapture our approach for model-driven cross-device UI development from previous work [18] and show its application for the motivated cross-channel banking scenario.…”

Section: Model-driven Cross-device Ui Development Approachmentioning

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“…More technical details regarding the transformation and execution phases can be found in our previous work [18] where we present used technologies, languages and frameworks for the generation and execution phases in more detail.…”

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Usability Evaluation of Model-Driven Cross-Device Web User Interfaces

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User Interface (UI) development is a challenging task as modern UIs are expected to be available across a wide range of diverse platforms while assuring high usability for heterogeneous users. Model-driven engineering principles have been applied in the context of multi-device and cross-device UI development to tackle complexity in development. While previous work related to usability evaluation of model-driven UIs primarily focused on single-and multi-device UIs, an investigation of the usability of model-driven cross-device UIs was not fully covered yet. In this paper, therefore, we present a model-driven UI development (MDUID) approach for cross-device UIs and analyze whether the applied MDUID approach has a positive impact on the usability of the generated UI. To accomplish this, we conduct a usability evaluation based on the generated UI for a cross-channel banking web application. The usability evaluation results provide detailed feedback regarding fulfillment of different usability criteria and enable improvement of involved models as well as model transformations.

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