Inproceedings,
Seamless User-Interfaces for Business Intelligence
Proceedings of the Workshop on Business Intelligence Methodologies and Applications (BIMA'08) (in conjunction with ICEBE 2008), (2008)
Abstract
The capturing and exploitation of user data within a Business Intelligence (BI) lifecycle involves the interaction between the human user - respectively teams - and systems. A large amount of BI-content is captured via structured documents. At first glance, the lifecycle of these structured documents stays purely digital in the future. Our research is based on the hypothesis, that the traditional paper based documents may serve an important role in todays and the future BI-content lifecycle. Paper as a medium is intuitive and ubiquitously used for capturing content. Within a BI-lifecycle, the transition from paper documents to digital content and vice versa is a challenge. Instead of traditional OCR-approaches within BI, it striked us that a seamless interaction between paper based forms and structured digital content would intuitively fit the working style of many people. Moreover, such a seamless transition between physical and digital content may increase the effectiveness and impact of "the document" at the heart of the BI-lifecycle in organizations. In this paper, we present our research on Human-Paper Interfaces applied to a scenario in healthcare. After introducing the scenario, the graphical elements of the Human-Paper Interface elements for "SeamlessDocument" are presented. An architecture for supporting the BI-lifecycle from paper-based to the digital world and vice versa is introduced. It is shown, how the work fits into a value chain that increases the effectiveness and impact of "the document" in scenarios as investigated. Keywords: Business Intelligence Lifecycle, Human-Paper Interface, Seamless Paper-to-IS Transition
