Title :
Software environment architectures and user interface facilities
Author :
Young, Michal ; Taylor, Richard N. ; Troup, Dennis B.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Inf. & Comput. Sci., California Univ., Irvine, CA, USA
fDate :
6/1/1988 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
The authors discuss the demands and constraints on a user interface management system for a software environment, and the relation between the architecture of the environment and the user interface management system. A model for designing user interface management systems for large extensible environments is presented. This model synthesizes several recent advances in user interfaces and specializes them to the domain of software environments. The model can be applied to a wide variety of environment contexts. A prototype implementation is described
Keywords :
programming environments; user interfaces; interactive program structures; software environment architectures; user interface management system; user interfaces; Assembly; Computer architecture; Context modeling; Environmental management; Human factors; Prototypes; Software performance; Software prototyping; Software systems; User interfaces;
Journal_Title :
Software Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
