Adaptation of user views to business requirements: towards adaptive views models

Abstract

This article describes an approach to model user views in service-oriented groupware systems in order to support the adaptation of views in collaborative projects environments. The issue is to adapt the visualization to the users' business requirements according to their usages. We rely on research works in Human-Computer Interaction, Information Visualization (InfoVis) and Model Driven Engineering fields to propose a user view meta-model. We worked on a case study that allows us to characterize a user view in order to model it. This case study is based on the use of 4D CAD to solve a recurrent and important issue in construction projects: the management of actors' interventions sequencing and reservations.