Crowdsourcing user interface adaptations for minimizing the bloat in enterprise applications

  • Authors:
  • Pierre Akiki;Arosha Bandara;Yijun Yu

  • Affiliations:
  • The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom;The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom;The Open University, Milton Keynes, United Kingdom

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

Bloated software systems encompass a large number of features resulting in an increase in visual complexity. Enterprise applications are a common example of such types of systems. Since many users only use a distinct subset of the available features, providing a mechanism to tailor user interfaces according to each user's needs helps in decreasing the bloat thereby reducing the visual complexity. Crowdsourcing can be a means for speeding up the adaptation process by engaging and leveraging the enterprise application communities. This paper presents a tool supported model-driven mechanism for crowdsourcing user interface adaptations. We evaluate our proposed mechanism and tool through a basic preliminary user study.