User Experience for Model-Driven Engineering: Challenges and Future Directions

TY - GEN

T1 - User Experience for Model-Driven Engineering

T2 - 20th ACM/IEEE International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, MODELS 2017

AU - Abrahao, Silvia

AU - Bourdeleau, Francis

AU - Cheng, Betty

AU - Kokaly, Sahar

AU - Paige, Richard

AU - Stoerrle, Harald

AU - Whittle, Jon

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PY - 2017/11/7

Y1 - 2017/11/7

N2 - Since its infancy, Model Driven Engineering (MDE) research has primarily focused on technical issues. Although it is becoming increasingly common for MDE research papers to evaluate their theoretical and practical solutions, extensive usability studies are still uncommon. We observe a scarcity of User eXperience (UX)-related research in the MDE community, and posit that many existing tools and languages have room for improvement with respect to UX [26], [44], [37], where UX is a key focus area in the software development industry. We consider this gap a fundamental problem that needs to be addressed by the community if MDE is to gain widespread use. In this vision paper, we explore how and where UX fits into MDE by considering motivating use cases that revolve around different dimensions of integration: model integration, tool integration, and integration between process and tool support. Based on the literature and our collective experience in research and industrial collaborations, we propose future directions for addressing these challenges.

AB - Since its infancy, Model Driven Engineering (MDE) research has primarily focused on technical issues. Although it is becoming increasingly common for MDE research papers to evaluate their theoretical and practical solutions, extensive usability studies are still uncommon. We observe a scarcity of User eXperience (UX)-related research in the MDE community, and posit that many existing tools and languages have room for improvement with respect to UX [26], [44], [37], where UX is a key focus area in the software development industry. We consider this gap a fundamental problem that needs to be addressed by the community if MDE is to gain widespread use. In this vision paper, we explore how and where UX fits into MDE by considering motivating use cases that revolve around different dimensions of integration: model integration, tool integration, and integration between process and tool support. Based on the literature and our collective experience in research and industrial collaborations, we propose future directions for addressing these challenges.

KW - Challenges

KW - Model Based Design

KW - Model Driven Engineering

KW - User Experience

KW - Vision Paper

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85040569509&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1109/MODELS.2017.5

DO - 10.1109/MODELS.2017.5

M3 - Conference contribution

AN - SCOPUS:85040569509

SP - 229

EP - 236

BT - Proceedings - ACM/IEEE 20th International Conference on Model Driven Engineering Languages and Systems, MODELS 2017

PB - IEEE

Y2 - 17 September 2017 through 22 September 2017

ER -