GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-96-31
Title:
The MASTERMIND User Interface Generation Project
Authors:
Thomas Browne
David Davilla
Spencer Rugaber
Kurt Stirewalt
Abstract:
Graphical user interfaces are difficult to construct and, consequently,
suffer from high development and maintenance costs. Automatic generation
from declarative descriptions can reduce costs and enforce design
principles. MASTERMIND is a model based approach to user interface
generation. Designers model different aspects of an interface using
declarative modeling languages, and tools synthesize these models into
run-time code. The design process begins with user task and application
modeling. These models are then refined into dialogue, presentation, and
interaction models and an application API. These latter models
drive the synthesis of run-time code. A design tool called Dukas is
employed to support the refinement of task models into dialogue models.
Keywords:
Model based, user interface, automatic generation, architecture, MASTERMIND
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