CTTE: support for developing and analyzing task models for interactive system design

Abstract

AbstractÐWhile task modeling and task-based design are entering into current practice in the design of interactive software applications, there is still a lack of tools supporting the development and analysis of task models. Such tools should provide developers with ways to represent tasks, including their attributes and objects and their temporal and semantic relationships, to easily create, analyze, and modify such representations and to simulate their dynamic behavior. In this paper, we present a tool, CTTE, that provides thorough support for developing and analyzing task models of cooperative applications, which can then be used to improve the design and evaluation of interactive software applications. We discuss how we have designed this environment and report on trials of its use.Index TermsÐTask models, models for interactive software systems, automatic tools for human-computer interaction, user interfaces.

OntoCompo: A Tool to Enhance Application Composition

“…We use semantic annotations (using OWL Light 1 language) for the description of applications. So the OWL Light description includes the description of the task model (an OWL representation of CTT [6]), the description of the UI elements (an OWL representation of MARIA [8]) and their layout and the description of functionalities. The OWL Light description also includes links between tasks and functionalities, links between tasks and UI elements, links between functionalities and the concrete FRACTAL component, links between UI elements and the concrete FRACTAL component.…”

Finding Iteration Patterns in Dynamic Web Page Authoring

“…WebRevenge generates a CCTT (ConCurTaskTrees, see [21]) based task model by analyzing the interaction as well as the web interface elements: tags and links. WebRevenge works together with TERESA [15], an abstract authoring tool for modeling applications from CCTT based task models. TERESA makes the straight engineering and WebRevenge the reserve one, in order to carry through an approach that allows for migration to different platforms.…”

Supporting Interactions with Multiple Platforms through User and Task Models

“…Such models are specified using the ConcurTaskTrees (CTT) notation. The CTT Environment tool [Mori et al 2002] publicly available at http://giove.cnuce.cnr.it/ctte.html supports editing and analysis of task models using this notation. The tool allows designers to explicitly indicate the platforms suitable to support each task.…”