Besides advances in usability the use of interactive systems still poses challenges for end users, particularly beginners. Users have to adapt in some way to the GUI. They have to learn the sequence of steps and how to accomplish them to perform a task. In addition, the fact that users often have to use different systems to accomplish their daily tasks increases the challenges they face. This paper presents ISI, a tool to support developers in the engineering of interactive systems. The tool aims to facilitate the integration of independent interactive systems while offering simplified interactions to end users. Based on picture-driven computing and task automation the tool aims to reduce the challenges that users face while trying to perform a task using one or several interactive systems, as well as improving the efficiency of task performance. The research is illustrated by means of a care home application example.

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Automation; Engineering of interactive systems; ISI; Picture-driven computing; Task modeling; User support systems

• Physical Sciences - Natural Sciences

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• Make it ISI: Interactive systems integration tool