Monday March 28 4:00 - 4:50 PM Covell 216 Dr. Gregor Engels On sabbatical leave at OSU, Spring 2005 Professor and Chair of Information Systems University of Paderborn, Germany
End-User Modelling While some substantial progress has been made in improving the way users can access interactive software systems, developing applications that effectively support users' goals still requires considerable expertise that cannot be expected from most users. On the other hand, only a substantial involvement of users in the software development or adaptation process will ensure that users' needs are met by a software system. It was the objective of the European Network of Excellence EUD-Net (End-User Development Network) to clarify basic notions in end-user development and to identify and classify promising research lines in this domain. A consortium of 16 partners from 7 different European countries collaborated on this topic between 2000 and 2004. One of the main outcomes was a research agenda und roadmap for EUD, which I will summarize at the beginning of the talk. Based on this, I will introduce our work on end-user modeling of interactive multimedia applications. This work is based on an object-oriented modeling approach by using and specializing the standard modeling language UML. Such a model-based approach is useful for end-user development because it allows people to focus on the main concepts without being confused by many low-level details. Biography Prof. Dr. Gregor Engels holds the chair of Information Systems at the University of Paderborn (Germany) since 1997. After his Ph.D. in Computer Science in 1986, he worked at several German universities, before he got the chair for Software Engineering at the University of Leiden (The Netherlands) between 1991 and 1997. His research interests comprise visual, object-oriented modeling techniques and their applications in multimedia or web-based systems, software process modeling approaches as well as syntactic and semantic language engineering approaches based on graph transformation systems. He has published more than 140 scientific papers. He is regularly member of the program committee of major conferences in software engineering, visual languages and modeling approaches. Currently, he is chair of the steering committee of the VL/HCC - Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing conference series. More details can be found on his webpage http://www.uni-paderborn.de/cs/engels.html. _______________________________________________ Colloquium mailing list [email protected] https://secure.engr.oregonstate.edu/mailman/listinfo/colloquium
