A presentation manager based on application semantics

Abstract

We describe a system for associating the user interface entities of an application with their underlying semantic objects. The associations are classified by arranging the user interface entities in a type lattice in an object-oriented fashion. The interactive behavior of the application is described by defining application operations in terms of methods on the types in the type lattice, This scheme replaces the usual "active region" interaction model, and allows application interfaces to be specified directly in terms of the objects of the application itself. We discuss the benefits of this system and some of the difficulties we encountered.

User interface development and software environments: the Chiron-1 system

“…With Chiron-1 we have tried to investigate the most challenging ones, the results being presented in the rest of this paper. Other significant UIDSs include Dynamic Windows [MYM89], Garnet [Mye89a], Higgens [HK88], and Serpent [BCH+90]; space limitations do not permit a comparison of their capabilities and Chiron-l's in this paper.…”