NIDO: Navegación e interacción con el usuario en el desarrollo de sistemas de información Web: Métodos, Técnicas y Herramientas TIC2003-00369

Abstract

NIDO (Navegación e Interacción con el usuario en el Desarrollo de sistemas de Información Web: Métodos, Técnicas y Herramientas) is a research project with two main lines of research. The first one is to continue with the research developed in the coordinated projects MENHIR (TIC97-0593-C05-03) and DOLMEN (TIC2000-1673-C06-03), while the second one is related to the opening of new research lines in order to cover specific aspects associated with the specification and development of web systems. The rapide advance of the internet has made web systems become one of the main lines of work in companies which produce software, and also, an important research line in universities, research centres and companies’ research departments. Therefore, one of the main aims of our research project is to define a methodological environment suitable to deal with navigational characteristics and user’s interaction in web systems. This approach has to cover aspects of the whole life cycle, from requirements to implementation and testing. Navigation and user interface are critical aspects in web systems. In order to make easier the application of our work, a second important goal is to give support to our approaches with tools that allow this kind of applications to be automated. Besides, in our work the definition of references and metrics to measure the grade of quality of the results is also a fundamental objective. Finally, an important characteristic of our project is the work with companies and our big interest in applying our results to real projects.