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Integration of User Interface Development in
Software Lifecycle Based on MDA and RUP
Kênia Soares Sousa Université catholique de
Louvain (UCL) 2nd Alban Conference Grenoble 2007
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Introduction

• User Interface Design (UID) is empirical
• A formal UID requires efficiency to be integrated
  into software development companies
• To solve the excess of empiricism in UID, the HCI
  community proposes the use of models according to
  Model Driven Architecture (MDA).
• Models support the mapping between the system and
  the user cognition
• Models can be reused to design the system in
  different contexts of use
• The language UsiXML (Limbourg Vanderdonckt,
  2004) represents models in a structured form to
  describe UIs for multiple contexts of use

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Aims

• To help professionals achieve efficiency in UID
  using UsiXML, we are working on
• Introducing an explicit way to define a UID
  method that can be then enacted, adapted, and
  monitored.
• Specifying a system that allows
• Defining the method with flexibility for easy
  adaptations
• Enacting to support execution of the lifecycle
  and traceability of actions to facilitate
  changes
• Monitoring to allow collection of metrics to
  identify points of improvement.

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MDA based on UsiXML
MDA Components
PIM
PSM
CIM
Code
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Techniques based on UsiXML
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AUI model
CUI model
Concep. models
FUI
Render
Association with RUP
Phases
Disciplines
Activities
Activities
Artifacts
Artifacts
Roles
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An example
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Methodology

• Study existing standards in software engineering
  to support
• The definition of methods
• SPEM (Software Process Engineering Metamodel)
• BPMN (Business Process Modeling Notation)
• The enactment and monitoring of methods
• BPEL (Business Process Execution Language)
• Perform a case study to validate this approach.

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Results

• To make a UID method applicable in the
  competitive reality of software development
  companies
• To constantly improve the method by storing data
  with information of experiences in projects
• To increase the efficiency when making changes
• Bring Human-Computer Interaction and Software
  Engineering closer together in practice

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Thank you very much for your attention
http//www.programalban.org Program Alban
http//www.isys.ucl.ac.be/bchi BCHI Lab
http//www.usixml.org User Interface eXtensible
Markup Language