Usability driven model transformation

Model Driven Engineering (MDE) is a software approach which promotes the use of models and model transformations as primary artifacts in the development process. Recently there has been wide interest in applying MDE approach in the Human Computer Interaction (HCI) field. It has been proved that MDE is an appropriate technique to generate as automatically as possible the final user interface from the conceptual model. Given a source model there may be several ways to transform it into target model. Alternative target models are equivalent from the functional perspective and may differ in their usability attributes. Driven the model transformation process by the usability properties is as yet unexplored territory. This study attempts to enter this territory by showing how the control of the selection of the alternative transformations based on the desired usability criteria can be an appealing way to ensure the usability of the generated artifact.