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2013 | OriginalPaper | Buchkapitel
Component-Based Design and Software Readymades
verfasst von : Anders I. Mørch, Li Zhu
Erschienen in: End-User Development
Verlag: Springer Berlin Heidelberg
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End-user developers need access to tools and techniques that allow them to create, modify, and extend software artifacts without programming. Previous research has shown that visual software components can provide the right level of abstraction. However, component-based design (CBD) will succeed only if there is a good balance of standardization and flexibility (software issues) and a good balance of usefulness and usability (HCI issues). We present a vision for CBD and two approaches toward achieving it: 1) design by composition and 2) design by redesign. We claim that the latter is more user friendly but lacks the flexibility of the former. We propose the notion of “software readymade” as a theoretical concept to integrate them, inspired by the role of the “spectator” in the work of the artist Marcel Duchamp. We propose stand-alone multiperspective tailorable software components to instantiate the concept, and we give two examples (application units and nuggets).