QUICK: exploring the middle ground in user interface design tools

Author

Douglas, Sarah ; Doerry, Eckehard ; Novick, David

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. & Inf. Sci., Oregon Univ., Eugene, OR, USA

Volume

ii

fYear

1991

fDate

8-11 Jan 1991

Firstpage

468

Abstract

Interface construction kits have become firmly established and well-accepted in recent years. They offer solutions to the programming complexity created by introducing user interface operations into traditional programming languages. The authors argue that an understanding of the productivity gain afforded by construction kits must be shaped by separating programming language from programming environment. The QUICK user interface construction kit is described and used as an example to explore what the authors call the middle ground in language abstraction: the prototype model of object-oriented languages

Keywords

high level languages; object-oriented programming; software tools; user interfaces; QUICK user interface construction kit; language abstraction; middle ground; object-oriented languages; productivity gain; programming complexity; programming environment; prototype model; traditional programming languages; user interface design tools; user interface operations; Computer interfaces; Computer languages; High level languages; Information science; Productivity; Programming environments; Programming profession; Prototypes; Technological innovation; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Sciences, 1991. Proceedings of the Twenty-Fourth Annual Hawaii International Conference on

Conference_Location

Kauai, HI

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HICSS.1991.184009

Filename

184009