GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-92-24
Title:
A Second Generation User Interface Design Environment: The Model and the
Runtime Architecture
Authors:
Piyawadee "Noi" Sukaviriya
James D. Foley
Todd Griffith
Abstract:
Several obstacles exist in the user interface design process which
distract a developer from designing a good user interface. One of the
problems is the lack of an application model to keep the designer in
perspective with the application. The other problem is having to deal
with massive user interface programming to achieve a desired interface
and to provide users with correct help information on the interface. In
this paper, we discuss an application model which captures information
about an application at a high level, and maintains mappings from the
application to specifications of a desired interface. The application
model is then used to control the dialogues at runtime and can be used
by a help component to automatically generate animated and textual help.
Specification changes in the application model will automatically result
in behavioral changes in the interface.
Keywords:
Application model, user interface model, user interface generation, user
interface design environment, automatic help generation
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