GENIUS: Generating Usable User Interfaces
This work addresses usability issues for end-users in automated UI generation, but it appears incremental as it builds on existing MDE tools without introducing a new paradigm.
The GENIUS project tackled the problem of poor usability in automatically generated user interfaces by applying Model-Driven Engineering principles, resulting in a system that includes metamodels, transformations with usability criteria, and an execution environment.
In this report we describe the implementation and approach developed during the GENIUS Project. The GENIUS project is about the generation of usable user interfaces. It tries to cope with issues related to automatic generation where, usually end-user complain about the poor quality (in term of usability) of generated UI. To solve this issue GENIUS relies on Model-Driven Engineering principles and several MDE tools. Notably, it consists in a set of metamodels specific to the interaction, a set of model transformation embedding usability criteria and an environment for model execution/ interpretation.