Eran Toch1, Iris ReinhartzBerger2, and Dov Dori1

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Automatically Generating andOptimizing
User-Interfaces for Dynamic Compositions

• Eran Toch1, Iris Reinhartz-Berger2, and Dov Dori1
  
• 1 Faculty of Industrial Engineering and
  Management, the Technion Israel Institute of
  Technology
• 2 Department of Information Systems, University
  of Haifa

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Three things

• Web Service Composition
• Liquid Interface Walkthrough
• Usability Optimization

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lt1gt Web Service Composition
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Get the price of a book in my own currency
User
Agent
Barnes--Noble Price Process
Book Finder Process
Currency Converter Process
Web Services Pool
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Semantic Web ServicesOWL-S Web Ontology
Language for Services
Barnes--Noble Price Process
Publication Finder Process
Currency Converter Process
input
output
output
output
input
input
Economy Ontology
Publication Ontology
Publication
Price
subclass
Book
Name
Publisher
Amount
Currency
ISBN
Author
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User Interface Architecture
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Existing Research

• Service visualization rendering
• Spillner-2007, Khushraj-2007
• Adaptive user interfaces
• Krzysztof-2006, Gajos -2008

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lt2gt Liquid Interface Walkthrough
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More
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lt3gtUsability Optimization
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Usability
The effectiveness, efficiency, and satisfaction
with which specified users can achieve specified
goals in particular environments.

• ISO 9241 usability definition

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Yahoo Design Patterns Library http//developer.yah
oo.com/ypatterns/
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UIPatterns Patterns Library http//ui-patterns.com
/
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Example Flat and Narrow Tree

• A set of guidelines regarding the depth (number
  of content levels) and width (number of choices)

Source "A Pattern Approach to Interaction
Design" (PAID) by Jan Borchers
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Optimization
NaïveTask Model
P1
opt
P2
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Optimized Task Model
Pn
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Some Questions

• Is there an optimal solution?
• Conflicts between patterns
• Is the solution computable?
• What are the boundaries of mathematical model of
  usability?
• Can analyzing conflicts between patterns teach us
  something?

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Thank You ?

• http//www.technion.ac.il/erant

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Publication hasTitle, hasPublisher, hasYear
Book ISBN
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Back
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References

• ISO-1998 Iso 9241-11. ergonomic requirements
  for office work with visual display terminals
  (vdts) part 11 Guidance on usability, 1998. 2
  A. Ankolekar, M. Burstein, J. R. Hobbs, O.
  Lassila, D. L. Martin, S. A.
• OWL-S-2001 McIlraith, S. Narayanan, M.
  Paolucci, T. Payne, K. Sycara, and H. Zeng.
  Daml-s Semantic markup for web services. In
  Proceedings of the International Semantic Web
  Workshop (SWWS), pages 411430, July 13 2001.
• Gajos -2008 Gajos, K. and Everitt, K. and Tan,
  D. and Czerwinski, M. and Weld, D.
  "Predictability and Accuracy in Adaptive User
  Interfaces" Proceedings of the ACM Conference on
  Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI 2008),
  Florence, Italy, April 2008.
• Khushraj-2007 Deepali Khushraj and Ora Lassila.
  Ontological approach to generating personalized
  user interfaces for web services. In
  International Semantic Web Conference, pages
  916927, 2005.
• Krzysztof-2006 Krzysztof Z. Gajos, Mary
  Czerwinski, Desney S. Tan and Daniel S. Weld.
  Exploring the Design Space For Adaptive Graphical
  User Interfaces. In Proceedings of AVI'06,
  Venice, Italy, 2006.
• Spillner-2007 Josef Spillner, Iris Braun, and
  Alexander Schill. Flexible human service
  interfaces. In ICEIS (5), pages 7985, 2007.
• 7 Eran Toch, Avigdor Gal, Iris
  Reinhartz-Berger, and Dov Dori. A semantic
  approach to approximate service retrieval. ACM
  Trans. Inter. Tech., 8(1)2, 2007.