Conceptual Modelling of Interaction

The conceptual model of an information system cannot be considered to be complete after just specifying the structure and behaviour of the system. It is also necessary to specify how end users will interact with the system. Even though there are several proposals for modelling interaction, none of them have become widely known or widely used in academia and industry. After illustrating the state of the art in this field, this chapter briefly presents a practical approach with the aim of showing how interaction modelling can be faced. The presented approach is called OO-Method, a Model-Driven Engineering method that allows full functional systems to be generated from a conceptual model. The chapter explains how OO-Method supports the interaction modelling by means of its Presentation Model. Apart from this description, the chapter comments on some limitations of the presentation model to satisfy end user interaction requirements related to preferences and different contexts of use. This problem is faced by distinguishing an abstract and a concrete level for interaction modelling. The abstract perspective focuses on what must be presented to end users in order to allow their interaction with an information system, and the concrete perspective focuses on how those elements are presented.

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