KIISS: a system for visual specification of model-based user interfaces

Abstract

Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. F. Saiz, J. Contreras, and R. Moriyón, “KIISS: a system for visual specification of model-based user interfaces”, in Computer Human Interaction Conference, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 Australasian, Adelaide, SA, 1998, pp. 306-313The appearance of model-based techniques for interface development has simplified the design of complex interactive applications, but this approach still requires from the designer a high knowledge level about the textual specification required. This paper presents a system, called KIISS (Knowledge-based Interactive Interface Surgery System), which allows the designer of an application to interactively define the model of its interface through visual specifications on an application example. Thus, the system enhances the model by allowing its use by designers who are not quite familiar with the textual specifications required for a user interface development. Moreover, reusability is preserved, since parts of existing applications can be both exchanged and modified interactivelyKIISS is partially supported by the Plan National de Investigation, Programa National de Tecnologia de Information y de las Comunicaciones, Spain, project number TIC93-0268, and a special grant from Comunidad de Madrid (Action Especial KIISS)