Semantically relating user interface design patterns

Abstract

Despite being a set of proven, well-documented, contextualized recommendations for solving frequently occurring user interface design problems, user interface design patterns are still not widely used. We believe this is due to the lack of tools to help designers find patterns and identify how they can be combined to solve user interface design problems. This paper proposes to classify and make explicit the relationships between user interface design patterns. We conducted a small-scale study that indicated that this proposal is more efficient and better accepted by the participants than browsing through a user interface design library.

Investigating the Case-Based Reasoning Process During HCI Design

“…Table II lists all facets used in CHIDeK, and their corresponding values. We briefly define the task types below: CHIDeK's semantic relationships are based on the work by Janeiro et al [16], which proposed a set of semantic relationships for UI patterns. We use semantic relationships to connect cases, as an alternative to help find related cases for the current design problem.…”

“…Thus, we addressed requirements E.1 and E.3. The semantic relations we used are [16]:  X is (often) used with Y: this is used when X and Y describe aspects of a system that are usually present together. For example, X can be a case describing the search feature of an online store selling theater ticket and Y can be the seat picking feature of the same kind of system (it does not need to be the same system described in case X, though);  X is similar to Y: this is used when cases X and Y have similar characteristics.…”

Pattern-based user interface transformation for knowledge sharing applications

“…Approaches for better pattern formalization are provided in [8] and [14]. Improvements within the scope of pattern organization are proposed in [4] and [12]. Tool support is discussed in [9] and [7].…”