FlowStates

Abstract

RESUMECet article présente FLOWSTATES, une boîteà outils compatible avec Java Swing qui associe deux modèles de gestion desévénements : les flots de données et les machines aétats. Le modèleà flot de données permet de facilement interfacer des périphériques non standard et de reconfigurer les interactions en fonction des périphériques disponibles, tandis que les machinesàétats permettent de réaliser aisément des interactions complexes.À travers des exemples, l'article illustre la puissance et l'expressivité de cette approche hybride et la flexibilité qui résulte du choix explicite de ne pas fixer les limites entre les rôles de chaque modèle. ABSTRACTThis article introduces FLOWSTATES, a user interface toolkit compatible with Java Swing that combines two models for managing events : dataflow and state machines. The dataflow model makes it easy to support non-standard input devices and to reconfigure interactions according to the available devices, while state machines support the programming of complex interactions. The article illustrates the power and expressivity of this hybrid approach and the flexibility afforded by the explicit decision to not set strict limits between the roles of each model.

Flex-ER

“…Broll et al [9] present a component based infrastructure to prototype interactive AR applications. Aside from data flows, the state machine approach plays an important role when defining interactions [3,6,49]. Flex-ER takes inspiration from these approaches, extending them to include experimental tasks.…”

“…Flex-ER uses a state machine model to define the interaction techniques. Our model is inspired by the FlowState model[2,3] since it couples data flow with a b a JSON used to describe the ISM and the TSM.…”

Polyphony

“…Among these, ICon [18] reifies dependency links into a visual language, which users can manipulate directly, for example to add or replace an input device. The two models have even been combined in FlowStates [3] in order to take advantage of the two formalisms where they are most appropriate. Model-based approaches such as MARIA [40] and UsiXML [31] have also been used to abstract the definition of user interfaces from the modalities available on each computer (devices, operating systems), and to facilitate the automatic processing of scene trees.…”