An end-user oriented approach to design man-machine interfaces for CAD/CAM

Author

Gardan, Yvon ; Jung, Jean-Pierre ; Martin, Benoît

Author_Institution

Metz Univ., France

fYear

1993

fDate

17-20 Oct 1993

Firstpage

525

Abstract

This paper describes the design, the specification and the implementation of a new type of graphical system, SACADO, for designing a dialog architecture. This system is an adaptative system for computer aided design and development. Thus, it can be considered as: a CAD/CAM tool, and a basis of CAD/CAM systems development. Features of the system include a hierarchical structure of the dialog with special effects of menus and a capability to allow immediate modification of the dialog specifications. This original approach, based on different kinds of menus and a single interaction, permits an end-user to design interfaces for CAD/CAM systems without any knowledge in computer science. Moreover, an overview is included on the technique used in the implementation of the dialog interpreter, which involves an intensive use of syntactic grammars

Keywords

CAD; CAD/CAM; grammars; graphical user interfaces; interactive systems; production engineering computing; CAD/CAM systems development; SACADO; dialog interpreter; dialog specifications; end-user oriented approach; graphical user interface; hierarchical structure; man-machine interfaces; syntactic grammars; CADCAM; Computer aided manufacturing; Computer interfaces; Computer languages; Computer science; Design automation; Interactive systems; Logic programming; Programming profession; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Systems, Man and Cybernetics, 1993. 'Systems Engineering in the Service of Humans', Conference Proceedings., International Conference on

Conference_Location

Le Touquet

Print_ISBN

0-7803-0911-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICSMC.1993.385066

Filename

385066