Integrating adaptive user interface capabilities in enterprise applications

Pierre A. Akiki, Arosha K. Bandara, Yijun Yu

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.

BibTeX

@inproceedings{Akiki-al:ICSE14,
  author    = {Pierre A. Akiki and
               Arosha K. Bandara and
               Yijun Yu},
  title     = {Integrating adaptive user interface capabilities in enterprise applications},
  booktitle = {ICSE},
  pages     = {712--723},
  publisher = {{ACM}},
  year      = {2014},
}

Integrating adaptive user interface capabilities in enterprise applications

Abstract

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