Is this a pattern?

Winn, Tiffany; Calder, Paul

doi:10.1109/52.976942

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“…Winn and Calder (2002) suggest nine essential characteristics of pattern, some of which reflect attributes also identified by previous researchers. Below we summarise the characteristics that Winn and Calder identify.…”

Section: Characteristics Of Pattern a Number Of Researchers Have Discmentioning

confidence: 90%

“…However, it is not enough simply to capture good HCI practice: pattern mining requires capture of practice that is both good and significant (Fincher & Utting, 2002). Patterns are not intended to state obvious solutions to trivial problems or to cover every possible design decision, but to capture "big ideas" (Winn & Calder, 2002). A pattern should capture insights about the design that can inform even an experienced designer; explaining not only how a problem can be solved but also why a design choice is appropriate to a particular context.…”

Section: Identifying Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Fincher and Utting (2002) compare abstraction in patterns to good teaching practice: it should facilitate understanding of the principles embodied in specific examples, to identify what is important in the examples. Winn and Calder (2002) suggest that patterns should present knowledge at graduating levels of abstraction.The focus on design patterns as a distinct form for design guidance has led to debates about the content and structure of patterns. In software engineering, a range of alternative formats appear in Beck and Cunningham (1987), Coad (1992), Beck (1994), Beck and Johnson (1994), Gamma et al (1995) and Fowler (1997).…”

Section: Identifying Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Pattern Languages in HCI: A Critical Review

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2006

Human–Computer Interaction

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This paper presents a critical review of patterns and pattern languages in human-computer interaction (HCI). In recent years, patterns and pattern languages have received considerable attention in HCI for their potential as a means for developing and communicating information and knowledge to support good design. This review examines the background to patterns and pattern languages in HCI, and seeks to locate pattern languages in relation to other approaches to interaction design. The review explores four key issues: what is a pattern? what is a pattern language? how are patterns and pattern languages used? and how are values reflected in the pattern-based approach to design? Following on from the review, a future research agenda is proposed for patterns and pattern languages in HCI.

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Section: Characteristics Of Pattern a Number Of Researchers Have Discmentioning

confidence: 90%

Section: Identifying Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Identifying Patternsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Pattern Languages in HCI: A Critical Review

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“…Design patterns provide a possible way to deal with non-functional requirements since they provide solutions to satisfy functional requirements as well as better solutions to meet nonfunctional requirements [34]. In other words, besides providing a basic, functional solution to a problem, a design pattern offers a qualified, non-functional improvement to that solution.…”

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Object-oriented design: A goal-driven and pattern-based approach

2007

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In recent years, the influences of design patterns on software quality have attracted increasing attention in the area of software engineering, as design patterns encapsulate valuable knowledge to resolve design problems, and more importantly to improve the design quality. One of the key challenges in object-oriented design is how to apply appropriate design patterns during the system development. In this paper, design pattern is analyzed from different perspectives to see how it can facilitate design activities, handle non-functional requirement, solve design problems and resolve design conflicts. Based on the analysis, various kinds of applicability of design patterns are explored and integrated with a goal-driven approach to guiding developers to construct the object-oriented design model in a systematic manner. There are three benefits to the proposed approach: making it easy to meet requirements, helping resolve design conflicts, and facilitating improvement of the design quality.

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“…Moreover, each team could record some software patterns [28], [29] (or anti-patterns [30]) that take the hardware characteristics into consideration and encapsulate knowledge gained from software analysis and design that successfully increased efficiency (or that failed to increase ef-ficiency). By explicitly stating which patterns are to be applied to the model, judging the efficiency of the model would become easier, and this should result in the generation of final software that is more efficient.…”

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Quality Evaluation of Embedded Software in Robot Software Design Contest

Washizaki

Yasuhide²,

Watanabe³

et al. 2007

Prog. Inform.

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A robot design contest, called the "Embedded Technology (ET) Software Design Robot Contest," which involves designing software to automatically control a line-trace robot, was held in Tokyo, in 2005. The contest was intended to provide a practical opportunity to educate young Japanese developers in the field of embedded software development. In this paper, we give the results of the contest from the viewpoint of software quality evaluation. We created a framework for evaluating software quality, which integrated the design model quality and the final system performance, and we conducted an analysis using this framework. As a result of the analysis, the quantitative measurement of the structural complexity of the design model was found to have a strong relationship to the qualitative evaluation of the design by the contest judges. On the other hand, no strong correlation between the design model quality evaluated by the judges and the final system performance was found. For embedded software development, it is particularly important to estimate and verify reliability and performance in the early stages, according to the design and analysis models. Based on the results, we consider possible remedies with respect to the models submitted, the evaluation methods used, and the contest specifications. To adequately measure several quality characteristics, including performance, in terms of a model, it is necessary to improve the approach to developing robot software (for example, by applying model-driven development) and to reexamine the evaluation methods.

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Is this a pattern?

Cited by 32 publications

References 8 publications

Pattern Languages in HCI: A Critical Review

Pattern Languages in HCI: A Critical Review

Object-oriented design: A goal-driven and pattern-based approach

Quality Evaluation of Embedded Software in Robot Software Design Contest

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