On the Development of Smart Adaptive User Interfaces for Mobile e-Business Applications - Towards Enhancing User Experience – Some Lessons Learned

Andreas Holzinger, Michael Geier, Panagiotis Germanakos

2012

Abstract

Mobile end users usually work in complex and hectic environments, consequently for mobile e-Business applications the design and development of context aware, smart, adaptive user interfaces is getting more and more important. The main goal is to make the user interface so simple that the end users can concentrate on their tasks – not on the handling of the application, the main challenge is its adaptation to the context. A possible solution is smart adaptation. Consequently, developers need to know the limits of both context and systems and must be aware of mobile end users different interaction. In this paper, we follow the hypothesis that simple user interfaces enhance performance and we report about some lessons learned during the design, development and evaluation of a smart, adaptive user interface for an e-Business application.

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Holzinger A., Geier M. and Germanakos P. (2012). On the Development of Smart Adaptive User Interfaces for Mobile e-Business Applications - Towards Enhancing User Experience – Some Lessons Learned . In Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking, e-Business and Optical Communication Systems - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2012) ISBN 978-989-8565-23-5, pages 205-214. DOI: 10.5220/0004067002050214


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@conference{ice-b12,
author={Andreas Holzinger and Michael Geier and Panagiotis Germanakos},
title={On the Development of Smart Adaptive User Interfaces for Mobile e-Business Applications - Towards Enhancing User Experience – Some Lessons Learned},
booktitle={Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking, e-Business and Optical Communication Systems - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2012)},
year={2012},
pages={205-214},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0004067002050214},
isbn={978-989-8565-23-5},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the International Conference on Data Communication Networking, e-Business and Optical Communication Systems - Volume 1: ICE-B, (ICETE 2012)
TI - On the Development of Smart Adaptive User Interfaces for Mobile e-Business Applications - Towards Enhancing User Experience – Some Lessons Learned
SN - 978-989-8565-23-5
AU - Holzinger A.
AU - Geier M.
AU - Germanakos P.
PY - 2012
SP - 205
EP - 214
DO - 10.5220/0004067002050214