Experiences in Using Patterns to Support Process Experts in Wizard Creation.
Birgit Zimmermann, Christoph Rensing, Ralf Steinmetz · 2008
of software often complain that many software solutions only insufficiently support them in solving their problems and performing their tasks. This phenomenon occurs with all kinds of software. It can also be seen with tools that are especially developed to support users in performing specific tasks. Working on a tool supporting users in performing so called adaptation processes we found the same problem. (These processes are needed to adapt existing E-Learning material in order to make it suited for changed usage scenarios.) To offer tool support for adaptation processes we created a wizard based on a pattern based description formalism for adaptation processes. This paper presents our experiences with this approach. The next chapter gives an introduction to adaptation processes. 2 An Introduction to Adaptation Processes Creating high-quality E-Learning material is a time and cost consuming task. Re-using existing material could reduce these costs. But often a one-to-one reuse of the existing material is not possible, as the new scenario of usage differs to a certain degree from the original usage scenario. Therefore, to achieve a high quality, it is necessary to adapt the