Open AccessWorkflow User Interfaces Patterns
Author(s) -
Josefina Guerrero-García,
Juan Manuel González-Calleros,
Jean Vanderdonckt
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
acta universitaria
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2007-9621
pISSN - 0188-6266
DOI - 10.15174/au.2012.343
Subject(s) - workflow , computer science , user interface , markup language , interface (matter) , task (project management) , user interface design , workflow management system , workflow technology , human–computer interaction , xml , database , programming language , world wide web , operating system , engineering , systems engineering , bubble , maximum bubble pressure method
A collection of user interface design patterns for workflow information systems is presented that contains forty three resource patterns classified in seven categories. These categories and their corresponding patterns have been logically identified from the task life cycle based on offering and allocation operations. Each Workflow User Interface Pattern (WUIP) is characterized by properties expressed in the PLML markup language for expressing patterns and augmented by additional attributes and models attached to the pattern: the abstract user interface and the corresponding task model. These models are specified in a User Interface Description Language. All WUIPs are stored in a library and can be retrieved within a workflow editor that links each workflow pattern to its corresponding WUIP, thus giving rise to a user interface for each workflow pattern.