Declarative Interaction Towards Evolutionary User Interface Prototyping

Bogdan, Cristian

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“…Another possibility relies on declarative user interface model (Da Silva, 2000) or model-based UI development (Paterno, 1999), an approach that has been steadily maturing over the last several decades (Meixner et al, 2011). However, the downside of this approach is that it can be highly theoretical and hard to understand and implement by designers and developers (Bogdan, 2017). Data-driven GUI generation might be a middle way to reduce this complexity as it generates GUI elements from templates or from pre-existing components (component-based development;Brown, 2000), thus providing the automatic customization of the GUI for the task to be performed based on the data that is provided (Gambino et al, 2018).…”

Section: Graphical User Interfaces (Guis)mentioning

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Inishell 2.0: semantically driven automatic GUI generation for scientific models

Bavay¹,

Reisecker

Egger

et al. 2022

Geosci. Model Dev.

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Abstract. As numerical model developers, we have experienced first hand how most users struggle with the configuration of the models, leading to numerous support requests. Such issues are usually mitigated by offering a graphical user interface (GUI) that flattens the learning curve. Developing a GUI, however, requires a significant investment for the model developers, as well as a specific skill set. Moreover, this does not fit with the daily duties of model developers. As a consequence, when a GUI has been created – usually within a specific project and often relying on an intern – the maintenance either constitutes a major burden or is not performed. This also tends to limit the evolution of the numerical models themselves, since the model developers try to avoid having to change the GUI. In this paper we describe an approach based on an XML description of the required numerical model configuration elements (i.e., the data model of the configuration data) and a C++/Qt tool (Inishell) that populates a GUI based on this description on the fly. This makes the maintenance of the GUI very simple and enables users to easily get an up-to-date GUI for configuring the numerical model. The first version of this tool was written almost 10 years ago and showed that the concept works very well for our own surface process models. A full rewrite offering a more modern interface and extended capabilities is presented in this paper.

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Section: Graphical User Interfaces (Guis)mentioning

confidence: 99%

Inishell 2.0: semantically driven automatic GUI generation for scientific models

Bavay¹,

Reisecker

Egger

et al. 2022

Geosci. Model Dev.

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Inishell 2.0: Semantically driven automatic GUI generation for scientific models

Bavay¹,

Reisecker²,

Egger³

et al. 2021

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As numerical model developers, we have experienced first hand how most users struggle with the configuration of the models, leading to numerous support requests. Such issues are usually mitigated by offering a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that flattens the learning curve. This requires however a significant investment for the model developer as well as a specific skill set. Moreover, this does not fit with the daily duties of model developers. As a consequence, when a GUI has been created -- usually within a specific project and often relying on an intern -- the maintenance either constitutes a major burden or is not performed. This also tends to limit the evolution of the numerical models themselves, since the model developers try to avoid having to change the GUI.To circumvent that problem, we have developed Inishell [1], a C++/Qt application based on an XML description of the inputs required by the numerical model that generates a GUI on the fly. This makes maintenance of the GUI very simple and enables users to easily get an up-to-date GUI for configuring the numerical model. The first version of this tool was written almost ten years ago and showed that the concept works very well for our own surface processes models. A full rewrite offering a more modern interface and extended capabilities is presented here.&#160;[1] Bavay, M., Reisecker, M., Egger, T., and Korhammer, D., &#8220;Inishell 2.0: Semantically driven automatic GUI generation for scientific models&#8221;, Geosci. Model Dev. Discuss. [preprint], https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-2020-339, in review, 2020.

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Declarative Interaction Towards Evolutionary User Interface Prototyping

Cited by 2 publications

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Inishell 2.0: semantically driven automatic GUI generation for scientific models

Inishell 2.0: semantically driven automatic GUI generation for scientific models

Inishell 2.0: Semantically driven automatic GUI generation for scientific models

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