Automated User Interface Generation Involving Field Classification

Abstract

Software applications are designed with a concrete purpose in mind, specified by business owners basing on the individual requirements. The user-system interaction is specified in the analysis phase. This phase specifies inputs, outputs, interaction, etc. These elements could be specified separately based on the target platform. The designers know that the mobile clients could have a different application flow than desktop clients. However, this is not a rule and designer rarely think about the user context or application. This implies that outputs, inputs and interactions do not change automatically during the software lifecycle. In this paper we present techniques that can determine whether the user, which is in a particular context, should be required to spend his/her time to fill in fields that are not needed for accomplishing a specific business task. Moreover, these techniques are able to determine whether the fields should display or not, as well as how the system might interact with the user. Next, we present a computational architecture capable of these types of determinations and we demonstrate this technique in case study. Finally, we show how automatically combine user interface generation with our approach.