Towards a multi-stakehoder engineering approach with adaptive modelling environments

Abstract

Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) addresses the study, planning and design of the interaction between people and computers through User Interfaces (UIs). The co-design and co-development of these UIs involve different stakeholders as Developers, Functional Analysts, Usability Experts and Interaction designers among others, all of them responsible for different UI elements (respectively implementation, functional requirements, usability and interaction workflow). Collaboration between stakeholders has been identified as a keyfactor for UI development. This article investigates how concepts and methods from model-driven engineering (MDE) can contribute to UI development through a collaborative approach. We discuss how UI views (extra-UI, mega-UI) can be useful for multi-stakeholder engineering, and how MDE acts as the backbone that supports them. The global approach is implemented through a first prototype of an Adaptive Modelling Environment (AME) illustrated through a case study. A screencast of the tool is also provided.