An Efficient Context-Based User Interface by Exploiting Temporality of Attributes

Information systems receive data through the user interface forms. Improperly designed user interface form increases navigational burden which in turn increases data-entry cost and data-entry errors. Research efforts are going on to investigate the improved methods for user interface design. Normally, context-based approach is followed to design user interfaces. In this approach, the input attributes are divided into several contexts based on the functionality and user interface form is designed for each context. It can be observed that, in some information systems, some attributes receive values only during certain time duration. We term this property as temporality of the attribute. In this paper, we have proposed an approach to exploit the temporality of attributes for identifying the active-contexts to design improved user interface. The implementation results on a real system show that the proposed method reduces the navigational burden significantly as compared to the existing context-based approach.