Towards a general purpose user interface for service-oriented context-aware applications

Context-sensitive user interfaces for semantic services

“…The functional evaluation refers to the technology/concept evaluation and deals with the interactions between user interfaces and underlying application systems. This evaluation helps to differentiate the proposed concept from existing approaches proposed in the literature [Butter et al 2007;Mowafi and Zhang 2007;Liu et al 2003;Kumar et al 2006;Weis et al 2006;Kassoff et al 2003]. We have investigated a number of characteristics related with the development of user interfaces such as ease of generating and combining user interface artefacts within a service-oriented system, reusing already existing user interface artefacts, etc, and analysed on how the proposed technologies help to achieve them.…”

“…A number of technologies or concepts have been proposed and used in developing user interfaces for web applications [Butter et al 2007;Mowafi and Zhang 2007;Liu et al 2003;Kumar et al 2006;Weis et al 2006;Kassoff et al 2003;Repo 2004;Kruger et al 2004]. We compare them with our proposed UIaaS approach using the above defined metrics.…”

“…This method of evaluation needs involvement of end users or experts. In summary, the [Butter et al 2007] × × × User-Centric Approach [Mowafi and Zhang 2007] × × × Hydrogen Approach [Hofer et al 2003] × × × × Adaptive Approaches [Liu et al 2003;Kumar et al 2006] × × Generic Approach [Weis et al 2006] × × CAPNET [Repo 2004] × × × Connected User Interface [Kruger et al 2004] × × × × GUI for Web Services [Kassoff et al 2003] × × UIaaS Table I. Functional comparison of UIaaS and other approaches.…”

“…There is a need to federate context-data retrieved from different services. Weis et al [Weis et al 2006] identified several challenges to address this need. One of them is to define a general purpose user-interface for such applications that allows users to deal with context-data and interact with context-aware services.…”