Graphical specification of user interfaces with behavior abstraction

DeSoi, J. F.; Lively, William M.; Sheppard, Sallie

doi:10.1145/67450.67477

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“…Design information such as task hierarchies may be defined as additional features within the object model. A relatively recent example of such a design technique is OBSM (Kneer and Szwillus, 1995), while earlier works such as Manheimer et al (1990) and Desoi et al (1989) have been mainly attributed to specific User Interface development tools, in which the object-based design specification is used to automatically generate the software implementation. Object-based methods are targeted towards the modeling of the structural interface properties, leaving no space for either behavioral or structural differentiation when the design parameters dictate diverse design decisions.…”

Section: Interaction-object Oriented Design Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unified user interface design: designing universally accessible interactions

Savidis

Stephanidis

2004

Interacting with Computers

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Designing universally accessible user interfaces means designing for diversity in end-users and contexts of use, and implies making alternative design decisions, at various levels of the interaction design, inherently leading to diversity in the final design outcomes. Towards this end, a design method leading to the construction of a single interface design instance is inappropriate, as it cannot accommodate for diversity of the resulting dialogue artifacts. Therefore, there is a need for a systematic process in which alternative design decisions for different design parameters may be supported. The outcome of such a design process realizes a design space populated with appropriate designed dialogue patterns, along with their associated design parameters (e.g. user-and usagecontext-attribute values). This paper discusses the Unified Interface Design Method, a processoriented design method enabling the organization of diversity-based design decisions around a single hierarchical structure, and encompassing a variety of techniques such as task analysis, abstract design, design polymorphism and design rationale. q

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Section: Interaction-object Oriented Design Methodsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Unified user interface design: designing universally accessible interactions

Savidis

Stephanidis

2004

Interacting with Computers

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“…Since failure and loss of connection may take place at any time, it is important to ensure that the dialogue state is centrally maintained within the mobile interface application kernel. Arguably, the most appropriate way to program such a behavior is via abstract interaction objects (Desoi et al, 1989;Duke and Harisson, 1993;Savidis and Stephanidis, 1995b;Wise and Glinert, 1995).…”

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Inclusive development: Software engineering requirements for universally accessible interactions

Savidis

Stephanidis

2006

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The notion of 'universal access' reflects the concept of an Information Society in which potentially anyone (i.e. any user) will interact with computing machines, at anytime and anyplace (i.e. in any context of use) and for virtually anything (i.e. for any task). Towards reaching a successful and cost effective realization of this vision, it is critical to ensure that the future interface development tools provide all the necessary instrumentation to support inclusive design, i.e. facilitate inclusive development. In the meantime, it is crucial that both tool developers and interface developers acquire awareness regarding the key development features they should pursue when investigating for the most appropriate software engineering support in addressing such a largely demanding development goal (i.e. universally accessible interactions). This paper discusses a corpus of key development requirements for building universally accessible interactions that has been consolidated from real practice, in the course of six medium-to-large scale research projects, all completed, within a 10 years timeframe. q

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“…Although some interface tools (e.g. [4,5]) support the primitive components that can be used to design dynamic visual interfaces (e.g. rectangle, circle, shading) the process of mapping the domain objects and their properties into corresponding visual properties in the interface is left to the developers, Developers may therefore select poor properties that yield ambiguous interfaces if they do not follow some graphics guidelines [6].…”

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ADDI: A tool for automating the design of visual interfaces

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Fischer

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Computers & Graphics

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Abstract-Visual interfaces are often poorly designed because the application developers lack graphics design knowledge. Designing effective interfaces requires great effort, especially when many types of graphical objects and relations are involved. In addition, many domain applications require interactive and dynamic graphical interfaces. Existing automatic graphical presentation systems focus on interfaces that convey only static information. Current user interface management systems that facilitate the process of creating interfaces for applications provide no assistance to help developers design the visualization features of interfaces. The aim of this research is to contribute to the design process of interfaces in general and dynamic ones in particular. A model-based framework and prototype tool called ADDI (Automatic Design of Dynamic Interfaces) has been created to help developers design domain-specific visual interfaces. ADDI combines a specification application with various visualization knowledge-base components to automatically generate a visual interface. Therefore, graphical user interface designers, by using ADD I, can select visual properties and hence be able to rapidly and correctly convey information visually according to the task specification in a domain application. Accordingly, high quality and consistent interfaces are generated even when the application developers lack the necessary graphics expertise. ADDI supports visual interface designers in four ways. The first is automatically determining the visual appearance of the interface objects from the Application Model specification. The second is computing the sizes and positions of the visual objects. The third is allowing developers to specify their preferences of designing visual objects. The fourth is aiding them in creating specific interactive presentation functions for end-users to interact with the interface. (0 1997

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Graphical specification of user interfaces with behavior abstraction

Cited by 5 publications

References 10 publications

Unified user interface design: designing universally accessible interactions

Unified user interface design: designing universally accessible interactions

Inclusive development: Software engineering requirements for universally accessible interactions

ADDI: A tool for automating the design of visual interfaces

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