A semiotic-based framework for the development of tailorable web applications

  • Authors:
  • Rodrigo Bonacin;M. Cecilia C. Baranauskas;Thiago Medeiros dos Santos

  • Affiliations:
  • CenPRA, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil;Institute of Computing, Unicamp Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil;CESET, State University of Campinas, Limeira, SP, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: applications and services
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

In face of the diversified individual and collective requirements of Web applications, we argue that the Web interfaces should be flexible enough to adapt or to be adapted to each usage context. We draw on the idea of Tailoring to design for flexibility. However, due to the additional effort to provide flexibility, usually the construction of a tailorable application results on higher costs and complex solutions. The objective of this work is to provide developers and designers with a framework to support the development of tailorable Web applications. This framework is based on a normative approach to describe the volatile requirements including social and pragmatics aspects of the system usage. In the paper we discuss the theoretical basis, describe the framework, and provide short examples of how to use it.