title: User Interface Design in Medical Distributed Web Applications.
abstract: User interfaces are important to facilitate easy learning and operating with an IT application especially in the medical world. An easy to use interface has to be simple and to customize the user needs and mode of operation. The technology in the background is an important tool to accomplish this. The present work aims to creating a web interface using specific technology (HTML table design combined with CSS3) to provide an optimized responsive interface for a complex web application. In the first phase, the current icMED web medical application layout is analyzed, and its structure is designed using specific tools, on source files. In the second phase, a new graphic adaptable interface to different mobile terminals is proposed, (using HTML table design (TD) and CSS3 method) that uses no source files, just lines of code for layout design, improving the interaction in terms of speed and simplicity. For a complex medical software application a new prototype layout was designed and developed using HTML tables. The method uses a CSS code with only CSS classes applied to one or multiple HTML table elements, instead of CSS styles that can be applied to just one DIV tag at once. The technique has the advantage of a simplified CSS code, and a better adaptability to different media resolutions compared to DIV-CSS style method. The presented work is a proof that adaptive web interfaces can be developed just using and combining different types of design methods and technologies, using HTML table design, resulting in a simpler to learn and use interface, suitable for healthcare services.
authors.affiliation: Department of Medical Informatics, University of Medicine and Pharmacy Victor Babeş Timişoara.
authors.forename: Alexandru
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Serban
authors.affiliation: Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania.
authors.forename: Mihaela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Crisan-Vida
authors.affiliation: Syonic SRL, Timisoara, Romania.
authors.forename: Leonard
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Mada
authors.affiliation: Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, University Politehnica Timisoara, Romania.
authors.forename: Lacramioara
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Stoicu-Tivadar
mesh_terms: D020407:Internet; D008490:Medical Informatics; D012984:Software; D012985:Software Design; D014584:User-Computer Interface