GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-93-43
Title:
TACTICS for User Interface Design: Coupling the Compositional and
Transformational Approach
Authors:
Srdjan Kovacevic
Abstract:
The paper describes TACTICS, the model and a model-based tool capable of
supporting a wide range of design decisions and providing assistance in
the design process. The TACTICS tool automatically generates a user
interface for an application and assists in refining it and in detecting
and resolving design inconsistencies. The TACTICS model of
human-computer interaction integrates a compositional model of UIs and a
transformational model of the UI design space. A user interface is
viewed as a composition of primitives structured based on the application
and on the desired dialogue style, and the model identifies user
interface components and structuring principles for assembling
components into a coherent interface. The model also defines
transformations that modify UI structures to achieve a desired
look and feel and enable designers to easily explore different UI
designs. The paper describes the knowledge structure of the model and
the TACTICS approach to generating user interfaces. UI components are
discussed and examples of UI structures given.
Keywords:
UI model, model-based design, UI design tools, UI components, UI
representation, automatic generation, design transformations
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