Optimization of User and System Knowledge

1988 ◽  
Vol 32 (5) ◽  
pp. 399-403
Author(s):  
Ann G. Hammer ◽  
Gerald G. Birdwell ◽  
Harry L. Snyder ◽  
R. H. Bogle
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Software Environment ◽  
Industrial Automation ◽  
Context Sensitive ◽  
System Components ◽  
Integrated Software ◽  
System Effectiveness ◽  
System Knowledge

This paper presents the perspective of a user system knowledge continuum which recasts traditional user system components (user interface, context-sensitive help, completion aids, manuals, training) as interrelated knowledge components tasked with appropriately distributing required knowledge between user and system. It suggests that maximizing user system effectiveness is best viewed as optimization of a set of such knowledge components. The paper relies upon a case study showing this perspective at work in the development of APT - Applications Productivity Tool™, an integrated software environment for industrial automation applications.

Developing Interactive Guidelines for Software User Interface Design: A Case Study

1993 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
pp. 263-267 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brian H. Philips
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Human Factors ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Design Guidelines ◽  
Software Environment ◽  
Software Developers ◽  
On Line ◽  
Sample Application ◽  
Time Required

There have been numerous methodologies, models, and tools created to support successful user-system interface (USI) design. One such tool is USI design guidelines, which is important for both software developers and human factors professionals in developing a good user interface. This paper discusses the creation of interactive USI design guidelines intended for software developers to use when creating applications in the Microsoft® WindowsTM graphical software environment. User-system interface design guidelines are an important part of the software design process and complement other human factors activities that support good USI design. Differences between printed and on-line guidelines documents suggest developing on-line guidelines to support the development of WindowsTM-based GE Information Services applications. The content of the GE guidelines is tailored toward company applications, using examples of both good and bad user interface designs to illustrate guideline principles. The guidelines also include a sample application that incorporates the guidelines in its user interface. Components that contribute to the effectiveness of the guidelines, such as quality, time required to use, relevance, and complexity, are explored.

scholarly journals The user’s guide to comparative genomics with EnteroBase, including case studies on transmissions of micro-clades ofSalmonella, the phylogeny of ancient and modernYersinia pestisgenomes, and the core genomic diversity of allEscherichia

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhemin Zhou ◽  
Nabil-Fareed Alikhan ◽  
Khaled Mohamed ◽  
Yulei Fan ◽  
Mark Achtman ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Core Genome ◽  
Genomic Diversity ◽  
Software Environment ◽  
Short Reads ◽  
Population Structures ◽  
Multiple Levels ◽  
Integrated Software ◽  
Global Population ◽  
Sequence Types

AbstractEnteroBase is an integrated software environment which supports the identification of global population structures within several bacterial genera that include pathogens. Here we provide an overview on how EnteroBase works, what it can do, and its future prospects. EnteroBase has currently assembled more than 300,000 genomes from Illumina short reads fromSalmonella, Escherichia, Yersinia, Clostridiodes, Helicobacter, Vibrio, andMoraxella, and genotyped those assemblies by core genome Multilocus Sequence Typing (cgMLST). Hierarchical clustering of cgMLST sequence types allows mapping, a new bacterial strain to predefined population structures at multiple levels of resolution within a few hours after uploading its short reads. Case study 1 illustrates this process for local transmissions ofSalmonella entericaserovar Agama between neighboring social groups of badgers and humans. EnteroBase also supports SNP calls from both genomic assemblies and after extraction from metagenomic sequences, as illustrated by case study 2 which summarizes the microevolution ofYersinia pestisover the last 5,000 years of pandemic plague. EnteroBase can also provide a global overview of the genomic diversity within an entire genus, as illustrated by case study 3 which presents a novel, global overview of the population structure of all of the species, subspecies and clades withinEscherichia.

scholarly journals IWEARUP.COM USER INTERFACE ANALYSIS

VISUALITA ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 31-44
Author(s):  
Irma Rochmawati
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Web Design ◽  
Website Design ◽  
Interface Analysis ◽  
Instrumental Case Study ◽  
Fashion Products ◽  
Visual Hierarchy ◽  
Instrumental Case ◽  
Marketing Tool

IWEARUP.COM is a website that is an e-commerce based. It contains information about buying, selling, distributing, and marketing fashion products. A business website is an example of using design as a marketing tool. Display of charming website with design is an attraction. However, a good website design must be able to display information clearly. Especially how to make the interface possible as it is not confused with the information displayed. Poor interfaces affect the users productivity or experience in visiting a website. This is a visual hierarchy which is the most important principles behind every website design. With an instrumental case study of the approach to produce conclusions that can be applied in designing e-commerce-based website. The goal is to make the website design in line with the content that will increase the website design and increase knowledge about the visual hierarchy of web design and its relation to the user interface.

scholarly journals On distributed concern delivery in user interface design

2015 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 655-681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomas Cerny ◽  
Miroslav Macik ◽  
Michael Donahoo ◽  
Jan Janousek
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
Web Application ◽  
Significant Information ◽  
Server Side ◽  
Ui Design ◽  
Potential Benefits ◽  
And Performance ◽  
Client Side

Increasing demands on user interface (UI) usability, adaptability, and dynamic behavior drives ever-growing development and maintenance complexity. Traditional UI design techniques result in complex descriptions for data presentations with significant information restatement. In addition, multiple concerns in UI development leads to descriptions that exhibit concern tangling, which results in high fragment replication. Concern-separating approaches address these issues; however, they fail to maintain the separation of concerns for execution tasks like rendering or UI delivery to clients. During the rendering process at the server side, the separation collapses into entangled concerns that are provided to clients. Such client-side entanglement may seem inconsequential since the clients are simply displaying what is sent to them; however, such entanglement compromises client performance as it results in problems such as replication, fragment granularity ill-suited for effective caching, etc. This paper considers advantages brought by concern-separation from both perspectives. It proposes extension to the aspect-oriented UI design with distributed concern delivery (DCD) for client-server applications. Such an extension lessens the serverside involvement in UI assembly and reduces the fragment replication in provided UI descriptions. The server provides clients with individual UI concerns, and they become partially responsible for the UI assembly. This change increases client-side concern reuse and extends caching opportunities, reducing the volume of transmitted information between client and server to improve UI responsiveness and performance. The underlying aspect-oriented UI design automates the server-side derivation of concerns related to data presentations adapted to runtime context, security, conditions, etc. Evaluation of the approach is considered in a case study applying DCD to an existing, production web application. Our results demonstrate decreased volumes of UI descriptions assembled by the server-side and extended client-side caching abilities, reducing required data/fragment transmission, which improves UI responsiveness. Furthermore, we evaluate the potential benefits of DCD integration implications in selected UI frameworks.

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