Authors:
Limin Shen
;
Chunyan Gao
and
Wenwen Jiang
Affiliation:
Yanshan University, China
Keyword(s):
User interface, flexible point, flexible change, flexible degree, function point.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Artificial Intelligence
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Human-Computer Interaction
;
Intelligent User Interfaces
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.