Reconfiguration of Graphical User Interface

The usability and the prime value of a software product increases proportionately with the number of different types of users supported and the number of different types of services provided at any one time by the product. The user interface for the product plays a critical role in this context. In this paper, the authors describe a dynamically reconfigurable graphical user interface for a web-based application. The user interface for this application is designed as a collection of controls. The users will not only be able to view selective information from the user interface, but also will be able to rearrange the controls on the user interface. In addition, users will also be able to introduce new controls and modify existing controls on the user interface without manually recompiling the original code thus achieving greater flexibility and saving time. The paper illustrates this dynamic reconfiguration of user interface through a case study on a health care application.