Cedar: Engineering Role-Based Adaptive User Interfaces for Enterprise Applications

Akiki, Pierre; Bandara, Arosha K. and Yu, Yijun (2012). Cedar: Engineering Role-Based Adaptive User Interfaces for Enterprise Applications. Technical Report 2012/08; Department of Computing, The Open University.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.21954/ou.ro.000160b8

Abstract

Feature-bloated enterprise applications such as customer relationship management (CRM) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) are very large scale, encompassing millions of lines-of-code and thousands of user interfaces (UI). Also, these applications are sold as generic off-the-shelf products to be used by people with diverse needs in required feature-set and backgrounds such as skills, culture, etc. Although several approaches have been proposed for adapting UIs to various user profiles, little work has focused on simplifying enterprise application UIs through engineering adaptive behavior. We define UI simplification as a mechanism for increasing usability through adaptive behavior by providing users with a minimal feature-set and an optimal layout based on their individual profile. In this paper we present Role-Based UI Simplification (RBUIS), a tool supported approach based on our CEDAR architecture for simplifying enterprise application UIs through engineering role-based adaptive behavior. RBUIS is integrated in our generic platform for developing adaptive model-driven enterprise UIs. Our approach is validated from the technical and end-user perspectives by applying it to developing a prototype enterprise application and user-testing the outcome.

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