User interface derivation from business processes

Abstract

This paper defines a model-driven approach for organizational engineering in which user interfaces of information systems are derived from business processes. This approach consists of four steps: business process modeling in the context of organizational engineering, task model derivation from the business process model, task refinement, and user interface model derivation from the task model. Each step contributes to specify and refine mappings between the source and the target model. In this way, each model modification could be adequately propagated in the rest of the chain. By applying this model-driven approach, the user interfaces of the information systems are directly meeting the requirements of the business processes and are no longer decoupled from them. This approach has been validated on a case study in a large bank-insurance company.Business process modeling, model driven engineering, modeldriven user interface development, usability, user interface extensible markup language.

User Interface Derivation Based on Role-Enriched Business Process Model

“…As their successive work, J.Vanderdonckt [114,115,116] proposes UI engineering method, in which the UIs are specified with UsiXML language, and then the model-to-model transformations (abstraction, reification and translation) between UIs are realized in a unified manner. K.Sousa et al [112] develop a modeldriven approach to derive UIs based on a the UsiXML business process model [113]. This proposed approach has four steps as process modelling, task derivation, task refinement, and UI model derivation.…”

“…K.Sousa et al [112] developed a model-driven approach to derive UIs from a business process as Figure 2.11 according to the UsiXML models [113,114,115,116]. In this approach, the UI derivation can be described as three phases:…”

The Goals Approach: Agile Enterprise Driven Software Development

“…Regarding the Human-Computer Interaction perspective, the closest solutions are methods that settle for user interface conception based on user task and domain models [15,16]. Our approach is different as it complementarily conceives the Business Logic layer based on enterprise business regulations and coordination structures.…”

The influence of target layout and target graphic type on searching performance based on eye-tracking technology

“…They conducted an experiment investigating the effects of providing landmarks within the instructions presented by an in-vehicle navigation system, found significant differences between older and younger drivers, and further discussed the implications of the results for the design of in-car interfaces for the older drivers. Sousa et al (2008) and Han et al (2020) considered business processes in the design of user interfaces, and used the model-driven method to autonomously derive user interfaces that conform to business processes.…”