Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces II

INTRODUCTION TO COMPUTER-AIDED DESIGN OF USER INTERFACES l 2 Jean Vanderdonckt and Angel Puerta ,3 Jlnstitut d'Administration et de Gestion - Universite catholique de Louvain Place des Doyens, 1 - B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium) vanderdonckt@gant,ucl. ac,be , vanderdoncktj@acm,org Web: arpuerta. com JKnowledge Systems Laboratory, Stanford University, MSOB x215 Stanford, CA 94305-5479, USA puena@camis. stanford. edu 3RedWhaie Corp. , 277 Town & Country Village Palo Alto, CA 94303, USA puerta@ redwhale. com Web: redwhale. com Computer-Aided Design of Vser Interfaces (CADUI) is hereby referred to as the particular area of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) intended to provide software support for any activity involved in the development life cycle of an interactive application, Such activities namely include task analysis, contextual inquiry [l], requirements definition, user-centred design, application modelling, conceptual design, prototyping, programming, in stallation, test, evaluation, maintenance, Although very recently addressed (e. g. , [3]), the activity of re-designing an existing user interface (VI) for an interactive application and the activity of re-engineering a VI to rebuild its underlying models are also considered in CADVI. A fundamental aim of CADVI is not only to provide some software sup port to the above activities, but also to incorporate strong and solid meth odological aspects into the development, thus fostering abstraction reflection and leaving ad hoc development aside [5,7]. Incorporating such methodo logical aspects inevitably covers three related, sometimes intertwined, facets: models, method and tools.

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This book gathers the latest experiences of experts, research teams and leading organisations involved in computer-aided design of user interfaces for interactive applications supported by software, such as code generators, model editors, task animators, translators, checkers, advice-giving systems and systems for graphical user interfaces. br/ emAudience:/em This volume will be of interest to software development practitioners and researchers whose work involves human-computer interaction, design of user interfaces, frameworks for computer-aided design, formal methods, multimedia systems, interactive applications, and graphical user interfaces.

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Invited speakers.- 1. Modeling for Component Based Development in UML/Catalysis.- 2. Theory Based Design: From Individual Users and Tasks to Collaborative Systems.- 3. Evaluating Accessibility and Usability of Web Pages.- Model-Based User Interface Development Environments.- 4. Model-Based Design of User Interfaces Using Object-Z.- 5. A Method Engineering Framework for Modeling and Generating Interactive Applications.- 6. GIPSE, A Model-Based System for CAD Software.- 7. Visto: A More Declarative GUI Framework.- 8. Beyond Automatic Generation-Exploratory Approach to UI Design.- 9. Using Application Domain Specific Run-Time Systems and Lightweight User Interface Models - A Novel Approach for CADUI.- 10.XXL: A Visual+Textual Environment for Building Graphical User Interfaces.- Linking and Deriving Models.- 11. Semi-Automated Linking of User Interface Design Artifacts.- 12. The Teallach Tool: Using Models for Flexible User Interface Design.- 13. MDL: A Language for Binding User-Interface Models.- Windows management.- 14. Vanishing Windows: An Empirical Study of Adaptive Window Management.- 15. Adaptive Layout Calculation in Graphical User Interfaces: A Retrospective on the A2DL-Project.- 16. Semantic Differences Between User Interface Platforms Relevance to Design and Re-Design of User Interface.- Design Frameworks and Objects.- 17. A Framework for Management of Sophisticated User Interface's Variants in Design Process: A Case Study.- 18. Grasyla: Modelling Case Tool GUIs in MetaCases.- 19. User Defined Objects are First Class Citizen.- Supporting Task-Based Design.- 20. The Visual Task Model Builder.- 21. Computer-Aided Analysis of Cooperative Applications.- 22. Methodological and Tool Support for a Task-Oriented Development of Interactive Systems.- 23. Modelling Work:Workflow and Task Modelling.- Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces.- 24. A Generic Framework based on Ergonomics Rules for Computer Aided Design of User Interface.- 25. CMF: A Coherent Modelling Framework for Task-Based User Interface Design.- 26. Towel: Real World Mobility on the Web.- 27. Tool-Based Support for User-Designer Collaboration in Distributed User Interface Design and Evaluation.- Computer-Aided Evaluation of User Interfaces.- 28. An Approach of Computer-Aided Choice of UI Evaluation Criteria and Methods.- 29. Considerating Subjectivity in Software Evaluation - Application for Teachware Evaluations.- 30. KALDI: A Computer-Aided Usability Engineering Tool for Supporting Testing and Analysis of Human-Computer Interaction.