Getting SW Engineers on Board: Task Modelling with Activity Diagrams

Brüning, Jens; Dittmar, Anke; Forbrig, Peter; Reichart, D.

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-92698-6_11

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“…Alternatives to tree visualizations of CTT are proposed in [4] and [14]. Former approach uses activity diagrams from the Unified Modeling Language (UML) specification, whereas in the latter case tasks are expressed using the Business Process Modeling Language (BPMN) notion.…”

Section: Task Models -Developmentmentioning

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Rule-enhanced task models for increased expressiveness and compactness

Gaulke

Ziegler

2016

Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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User centered design and development of interactive systems utilizes theoretically well-grounded, yet practical ways to capture user's goals and intentions. Task models are an established approach to break down a central objective into a set of hierarchical organized tasks. While task models achieve to provide a good overview of the overall system, they often lack detail necessary to (semi-) automatically generate user interfaces. Based on requirements derived from a comprehensive overview of existing task model extensions, improvements and development methods, an approach that integrates logical rules with task models is introduced. By means of practical examples it is shown, that the integration of rules enables advanced execution flows as well as leaner task models thus improving their practical value.

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Section: Task Models -Developmentmentioning

confidence: 99%

Rule-enhanced task models for increased expressiveness and compactness

Gaulke

Ziegler

2016

Proceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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“…To realize that, we employ the UML activity diagram notation (UML, 2011). The authors in (Brüning, 2008) tackle the idea of bridging the gap between software engineering domain and task models by providing a valid transformation from task models to activity diagrams. A corresponding transformation rule for every temporal operator in CTT to an activity fragment is proposed.…”

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“…Then for a given task, two types of constraints can be assigned. First, we have the temporal constraints which express the order of execution of this action relatively to the other ones and which are represented following the rules in (Brüning, 2008). Secondly, we have the environmental constraints related to this action's execution and which we suggest to manifest using notes enabling the assignment of preconditions and effects in a formal way.…”

Section: Execution Constraints Visualizationmentioning

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Towards Contextual Task Patterns for Smart Meeting Rooms

Zaki¹,

Forbrig²,

Brüning³

2012

Proceedings of the 2nd International Conference on Pervasive Embedded Computing and Communication Systems

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The main idea of smart environments is to deliver proper assistance to the resident users while performing their daily life tasks. Thus, task models are convenient as a starting point for developing applications for those environments, as they give the developer the opportunity to focus on the users and their tasks. In such an environment, mutual dependencies between different types of entities are taking place and affecting the way the user is executing the tasks. Therefore, other models (e.g. device model, location model …etc.) have to be developed and linked to the task model in order to truly illustrate how the tasks are executed in those environments. Due to the increasing number of models and the dependencies among them, modeling an interactive application to be operated in such an environment is a tedious and overwhelming process. In this paper, we present an attempt to overcome the modeling complexity by fostering the concept of reuse on a high level of abstraction using task patterns. We extend the former definition of task patterns by integrating the environmental preconditions and effects within the pattern structure in order to maximise the benefit of the usage of those patterns.162 Zaki M., Forbrig P. and Brüning J.. TOWARDS CONTEXTUAL TASK PATTERNS FOR SMART MEETING ROOMS.

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“…[23,8] propose some informal transformations between activity diagrams and task model. But transformations are more commonly used to produce code.…”

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A Survey of Model Driven Engineering Tools for User Interface Design

Pérez-Medina

Dupuy-Chessa

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Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. The introduction of new technologies leads to a more and more complex interactive systems design. In order to describe the future interactive system, the human computer interaction (HCI) domain uses specific models and tools. In another way, the Model Driven Engineering (MDE) approach has been proposed in software engineering domain in order to provide techniques and tools for dealing with models in an automated way. MDE approach is based on models, meta-models, models transformation and models weaving and aims to produce productive models, i.e. models concentrated on their generative power. Considering these two domains and the already existing HCI works in MDE, the goal of this paper is to understand actual HCI design needs and to study how MDE tools can support HCI needs. As a first response, it proposes a survey of existing MDE tools in regards to HCI model management.

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Getting SW Engineers on Board: Task Modelling with Activity Diagrams

Cited by 14 publications

References 12 publications

Rule-enhanced task models for increased expressiveness and compactness

Rule-enhanced task models for increased expressiveness and compactness

Towards Contextual Task Patterns for Smart Meeting Rooms

A Survey of Model Driven Engineering Tools for User Interface Design

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