QualiHM: A requirement engineering toolkit for efficient user interface design

Author

Boukhebouze, Mohamed ; Ramdoyal, Ravi ; Diakodimitris, Dimitri ; Sangiorgi, Ugo ; Zen, Mathieu ; Vanderdonckt, Jean

Author_Institution

CETIC Res. Center, Charleroi, Belgium

fYear

2014

fDate

28-30 May 2014

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

11

Abstract

An effective User Interface (UI) is a key success factor for interactive systems. Hence, particular attention should be paid to the UI design during the Requirement Engineering process (RE). Several RE tools have been proposed in order to support the UI design. However, these tools have limitations in terms of requirements completeness, requirements quality analysis and UI generation from requirements. In this paper, we present a new RE toolkit called QualIHM, that deals with the limitations of the existing RE. The toolkit supports the description of requirements in different formats. In addition, QualiHM facilitates the UI design by transforming requirement formats from one to another, generating the UI code and providing feedback about the aesthetic of the UI.

Keywords

formal specification; interactive systems; user interfaces; QualiHM; RE tools; UI aesthetic; UI code generation; UI design; UI generation; interactive systems; requirement engineering process; requirement engineering toolkit; requirements completeness; requirements quality analysis; user interface design; Abstracts; Adaptation models; Concrete; Interactive systems; Prototypes; Software; User interfaces; Assistance for UI designers; Formats Requirements; Requirement Engineering Tools; UIDL support; User Interface Aesthetic Evaluatuion; User Interface Design;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Research Challenges in Information Science (RCIS), 2014 IEEE Eighth International Conference on

Conference_Location

Marrakech

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/RCIS.2014.6861056

Filename

6861056