Tutorial: From Business Models to User Interfaces in A Few Steps (Half-day Tutorial)
Leader: Hermann Kaindl

This tutorial is highly cross-disciplinary. Its main technical areas are Business Modeling and Human-Computer Interaction, which will be connected through ontologies and discourse models. Our discourse models are derived from results of Human Communication theories, Cognitive Science and Sociology. We will show how business models can be based on ontologies and discourse models (even without employing speech or natural language). Ontologies help to define the domain of discourse, and the discourse models referring to it implicitly define tasks as well.

Any software implementing an interactive business application needs a user interface, today possibly even several ones adapted for different devices (PCs, PDAs, mobile phones). Developing a user interface is difficult and takes a lot of effort, since it normally requires design and implementation. This is also expensive, and even more so for several user interfaces for different devices. So, this tutorial also demonstrates that and how our business models can be used for automatic generation of user interfaces and linking them to the application logic and the domain of discourse.

Hermann Kaindl (kaindl @ ict.tuwien.ac.at) joined the Vienna University of Technology in Vienna, Austria, in early 2003 as a full professor. Prior to moving to academia, he was a senior consultant with the PSE division of Siemens Austria. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE and a Distinguished Scientist member of the ACM.