EVALUATION OF FLEXIBLE POINTS ON USER INTERFACE FOR INFORMATION SYSTEM

Limin Shen, Chunyan Gao, Wenwen Jiang

2007

Abstract

To deal with user requirement changes at runtime, information system software provides adaptable operations through user interfaces to change software functionality. We suggest the FleXible Point(FXP), flexible changes, flexible degree, flexible force, and flexible distance, to evaluate the effect of such user interfaces. Flexible degree is determined by flexible distance and flexible force. Flexible distance is measured by function point counting and flexible force is measured by level value of flexible point. An application to wage calculation software is given to illustrate the evaluation and measurement based on the FXP. The approach can be used as a guide to adjusting, improving, and to comparing the FXP on user interfaces, and arranging different levels of manipulators to increase the FXP efficiency and to bring the FXPs on user interface into play.

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in Harvard Style

Shen L., Gao C. and Jiang W. (2007). EVALUATION OF FLEXIBLE POINTS ON USER INTERFACE FOR INFORMATION SYSTEM . In Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS, ISBN 978-972-8865-92-4, pages 253-256. DOI: 10.5220/0002347002530256


in Bibtex Style

@conference{iceis07,
author={Limin Shen and Chunyan Gao and Wenwen Jiang},
title={EVALUATION OF FLEXIBLE POINTS ON USER INTERFACE FOR INFORMATION SYSTEM},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,},
year={2007},
pages={253-256},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002347002530256},
isbn={978-972-8865-92-4},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 5: ICEIS,
TI - EVALUATION OF FLEXIBLE POINTS ON USER INTERFACE FOR INFORMATION SYSTEM
SN - 978-972-8865-92-4
AU - Shen L.
AU - Gao C.
AU - Jiang W.
PY - 2007
SP - 253
EP - 256
DO - 10.5220/0002347002530256