DOI: 10.17587/prin.15.44-52

Interface Visualization Method Reflecting the Business Logic of User Interaction

S. A. Belikova, Senior Lecturer, belousova@sfedu.ru, Y. Y. Lipko, Assistant Professor, ylipko@sfedu.ru, Southern Federal University, Taganrog, 347922, Russian Federation

Corresponding author: Svetlana A. Belikova, Senior Lecturer, Southern Federal University, Taganrog, 347922, Russian Federation, E-mail: belousova@sfedu.ru

The paper presents a method for visualizing the interface, reflecting the business logic of user interaction with the information system. The presented method differs from the known ones in that it allows you to create an interface from the users reasoning, presented in terms of their professional activity. The implementation of this method is aimed at achieving cognitive simplicity and ergonomic properties for the user. The interface visualization method includes a description of the users activity in the subject area, its analysis and presentation in the information system interface. The key feature of the method is the study and formation of a description of the logic of the users professional actions performed in the subject area, as well as its presentation in the user interface of the information system in the form of a task map. This approach makes it possible to consider the context of the users activity as a whole and create a user interface that best suits the activity in question, which will make the interface more user-friendly. This determines the scientific and practical significance of the method in relation to other approaches that take into account not the general context of the users professional activity, but only its individual aspects.

Keywords: user interface, user interaction, interaction logic, interface design, description of user activity, analysis of user work

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For citation:
Belikova S. A., Lipko Y. Y. Interface Visualization Method Reflecting the Business Logic of User Interaction, Programmnaya Ingeneria, 2024, vol. 15, no. 1, pp. 44—52. DOI: 10.17587/prin.15.44-52 (in Russian).

Acknowledgments: The reported study was funded by RSF according to the research project № 22-19-00723.

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