Usi4Biz.com http://usi4biz.com Aligning Business Process with User Interfaces Tue, 06 Jul 2010 07:19:03 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Important Milestone: Usi4Biz PhD Thesis Defended An important milestone was achieved last month at IBM Forum Brussels. Kênia Sousa, who is now a doctor in Management Science, defended her PhD thesis on June 24th. Her thesis represents the consolidation of all research produced on the promising field of UI-Business alignment so far.

Kênia Sousa on her PhD defense at IBM Forum Brussels

The . . . → Read More: Important Milestone: Usi4Biz PhD Thesis Defended]]> http://usi4biz.com/2010/07/03/important-milestone-usi4biz-phd-thesis-defended/ Trust is Everything in Business Going back to the experience at the Dagstuhl seminar. We noticed that a lot of products, from beverages to snacks, are available for sale near the cafeteria area. All we need to do is to pick what we want. The interesting thing is that there is nobody checking the products available to make sure that you’ve included your . . . → Read More: Trust is Everything in Business]]> http://usi4biz.com/2010/05/03/trust-is-everything-in-business/ Participation in the Dagstuhl Seminar Last week, we have attended a Dagstuhl Seminar on the theme of “Enabling Holistic Approaches to Business Process Lifecycle Management”. During the seminar, we came up with a set of challenges for business process management that included ideas from different domains, such as the human involvement, conceptual modeling, reuse, etc.

The purpose of the Dagstuhl Castle is . . . → Read More: Participation in the Dagstuhl Seminar]]> http://usi4biz.com/2010/04/22/participation-in-the-dagstuhl-seminar/ Usi4Biz at Google Books We are glad to let you know about our first presence in the Google Books collection. It was due to the publication at Tamodia’2009, as reported before. You can read the entire paper in the embedded frame below.

This book was published by Springer early this year. It was edited by David England (University of Liverpool, UK), . . . → Read More: Usi4Biz at Google Books]]> http://usi4biz.com/2010/02/28/usi4biz-at-google-books/ Usi4Biz Brazilian Tour We are in Brazil now, giving several presentations of the Usi4Biz Framework for some software companies, a big corporation and a university. Our intention is to listen to the vision and opinion of Brazilian business and research people about the framework and its adoption by companies of a country like Brazil. Our vision so far was . . . → Read More: Usi4Biz Brazilian Tour]]> http://usi4biz.com/2009/12/27/usi4biz-brazilian-tour/ Presentation of the Usi4Biz Platform at Hasselt University Last Thursday we presented the Usi4Biz Framework in the Expertise Centre For Digital Media (EDM) at the University of Hasselt, Belgium. We were specially happy about the discussion after the presentation, when the task model was put under pressure by an audience of model experts. It was an opportunity to reinforce the arguments that we have . . . → Read More: Presentation of the Usi4Biz Platform at Hasselt University]]> http://usi4biz.com/2009/12/05/presentation-of-the-usi4biz-platform-at-hasselt-university/ Usi4Biz Presentation at Devoxx Available on parleys.com The presentation of the Usi4Biz Platform at Devoxx’09 was fully published on parleys.com. When we say “fully” we mean 100% of the content published, which includes a video of the speaker, synchronized with the slides and also with the demo of the Usi4Biz Platform.

Click here to see a preview of the presentation. To watch all 132 . . . → Read More: Usi4Biz Presentation at Devoxx Available on parleys.com]]> http://usi4biz.com/2009/12/01/usi4biz-presentation-at-devoxx-available-on-parleys-com/ Linking Business Processes and User Interfaces at Devoxx’09 This Monday, November 17th, we presented the Usi4Biz Platform at Devoxx and we are specially happy that the energy of this idea is as strong as the energy of this event and its 2,5 thousands attendees. It was the first time this idea was disseminated for the general public in an European level, since Devoxx is . . . → Read More: Linking Business Processes and User Interfaces at Devoxx’09]]> http://usi4biz.com/2009/11/19/linking-business-processes-and-user-interfaces-at-devoxx09/ Presentation at the IBM Forum Brussels The idea behind the Usi4Biz framework, which aims to link business processes with user interfaces, has been producing very positive impacts so far. Kênia Sousa, the main researcher behind the Usi4Biz Framework, who conducts her research at the Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), was recently awarded with the IBM PhD Fellowship Award, granted to a select . . . → Read More: Presentation at the IBM Forum Brussels]]> http://usi4biz.com/2009/11/15/presentation-at-ibm-forum-brussels/ Usi4Biz Framework Presentation at Sigchi.Be’09 Last Monday, October 19th, we presented the Usi4Biz framework at SigChi.be’09, the annual event of the Belgium chapter of the ACM Special Interest Group of Computer Human Interaction. This presentation gave a general idea of the framework for a public composed mostly of user interface designers.

We are specially happy to disseminate the Usi4Biz framework for the . . . → Read More: Usi4Biz Framework Presentation at Sigchi.Be’09]]> http://usi4biz.com/2009/10/23/usi4biz-framework-presentation-at-sigchi-be09/