INTELLIGENT TASK-ORIENTED USER INTERFACES IN PRODUCTION ENVIRONMENTS

The impact of user interface (UI) quality has grown in software system engineering. This importance will grow further with upcoming new paradigms such as Ambient Intelligence or Ubiquitous Computing. These paradigms confront the production industry with a new diversity of usage situations. In this paper, we will show the adaptation of a task-oriented, model-based useware engineering process to future paradigms by extending existing models and shifting the generation of the UI from development time to run-time. This integrated engineering process considers several user groups' tasks and UI structure preferences in a common use model described in a system-independent language.