Automated WIMP-UI behavior generation: Parallelism and granularity of communication units

Author

Raneburger, David ; Popp, Roman ; Kaindl, Hermann ; Falb, Jürgen

Author_Institution

Inst. of Comput. Technol., Vienna Univ. of Technol., Vienna, Austria

fYear

2011

fDate

9-12 Oct. 2011

Firstpage

2816

Lastpage

2821

Abstract

Automated generation of Window / Icon / Menu / Pointing Device User Interfaces (WIMP UIs) has some potential, but there are still many unresolved issues involved, that lead, e.g., to usability problems. In particular, there are several problems concerning the derivation of behavior models of such user interfaces from a high-level interaction model. These problems are related to parallelism and granularity of communication units. In this paper, we present a new process for the automated derivation of a WIMP-UI behavior model from a given high-level Discourse Model. Our new process can handle parallelism in these models and supports different granularities of communication units. This solves certain problems of WIMP-UI generation related to behavior models.

Keywords

graphical user interfaces; WIMP-UI behavior model; automated WIMP-UI behavior generation; automated generation; communication units; granularity; high-level discourse model; high-level interaction model; parallelism; window/icon/menu/pointing device user interfaces; Adaptation models; Airports; Atmospheric modeling; Joints; Parallel processing; Unified modeling language; Usability; Automated generation of user interfaces; behavior model; discourse model; modeldriven generation;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man, and Cybernetics (SMC), 2011 IEEE International Conference on

Conference_Location

Anchorage, AK

ISSN

1062-922X

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0652-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.2011.6084099

Filename

6084099