Towards task-based linguistic modeling for designing GUIs

Khaddam, Iyad; Mezhoudi, Nesrine; Vanderdonckt, Jean

doi:10.1145/2820619.2820636

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“…Foldable screens introduce a new type of interaction: the physical deformation of the screen by folding, turning and rotating the device, which is covered in our user interaction model. The direct input should be addressed when developing the UI of the software, following well-known approaches for developing UIs, such as model-driven approaches [3,[15][16][17] among others. This separation between the direct input model and the physical interaction is fruitful to allow developing the UI independently from Flecto models, and at the same time being able to turn it into a FoUI.…”

Section: The User Interaction Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Rapid Prototyping of Foldable Graphical User Interfaces with Flecto

Khaddam

Vanderdonckt

Dowaji

et al. 2020

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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Whilst new patents and announcements advertise the technical availability of foldable displays, which are capable to be folded to some extent, there is still a lack of fundamental and applied understanding of how to model, to design, and to prototype graphical user interfaces for these devices before actually implementing them. Without waiting for their off-the-shelf availability and without being tied to any physical foldable mechanism, Flecto defines a model, an associated notation, and a supporting software for prototyping graphical user interfaces running on foldable displays, such as foldable smartphone or assemblies of foldable surfaces. For this purpose, we use an extended notation of the Yoshizawa-Randlett diagramming system, used to describe the folds of origami models, to characterize a foldable display and define possible interactive actions based on its folding operations. A guiding method for rapidly prototyping foldable user interfaces is devised and supported by Flecto, a design environment where foldable user interfaces are simulated in 3D environment instead of in physical reality. We report on a case study to demonstrate Flecto in action and we gather the feedback from users on Flecto, using Microsoft Product Reaction Cards. CCS Concepts: • Human-centered computing → Displays and imagers; Interactive systems and tools; Graphical user interfaces; Virtual reality; Ubiquitous and mobile computing design and evaluation methods; • Software and its engineering → Integrated and visual development environments; Rapid application development.

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Section: The User Interaction Modelmentioning

confidence: 99%

Towards Rapid Prototyping of Foldable Graphical User Interfaces with Flecto

Khaddam

Vanderdonckt

Dowaji

et al. 2020

Proc. ACM Hum.-Comput. Interact.

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“…There is also an intrinsic relationship between user interface design and task modeling, when considered in a user requirements perspective. Some authors have even tried to establish linguistic task modeling for designing user interfaces [24] where a notation enables identification of task input elements based on the task state diagram and dynamic tasks. Martinie et al [25], followed by Campos et al [26], propose a toolsupported framework and a model-based testing approach to support linking task models to an existing, executable, and interactive application, defining a systematic correspondence between the user interface elements and user tasks.…”

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Ensuring the Consistency Between User Requirements and GUI Prototypes: A Behavior-Based Automated Approach

Silva

Winckler

Trætteberg

2019

Human-Computer Interaction – INTERACT 2019

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In a user-centered design process, graphical user interface (GUI) prototypes may be seen as an important early artifact to design and validate user requirements before making strong commitments with a full-fledged version of the user interface. Ensuring the consistency of GUI prototypes with other representations of the user requirements is then a critical aspect of the design process. This paper presents an approach which extends Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) by employing an ontology in order to provide automated assessment for GUI prototypes as design artifacts. The approach has been evaluated by exploiting user requirements described by a group of experts in the flight tickets e-commerce domain. Such requirements gave rise to a set of User Stories that have been used to automatically check the consistency of Balsamiq prototypes which were reengineered from an existing web system for booking business trips. The results have shown our approach was able to identify different types of inconsistencies in the set of analyzed artifacts, allowing to build an effective correspondence between user requirements and their representation in GUI prototypes.

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“…In [69], the authors define a DSML on akin to the use of Flowcharts merged with a lighter version of Sketching to provide a specialized abstraction that brings the concepts used in Flowcharts closer to an HCI perspective. However, this approach has its main focus on tasks, their workflow, and their goals, addressing limitations of other task specification approaches.…”

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Adapting modeling environments to domain specific interactions

Sousa

2017

Proceedings of the ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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Software tools are being used by experts in a variety of domains. There are numerous software modeling environments tailored to a specific domain expertise. However, there is no consistent approach to generically synthesize a product line of such modeling environments that also take into account the user interaction and experience adapted to the domain. The focus of my thesis is the proposal of a solution to explicitly model user interfaces and interaction of modeling environments so that they can be tailored to the habits and preferences of domain experts. We extend current model-driven engineering techniques that synthesize graphical modeling environments to also take interaction models into account. The formal semantics of our language framework is based on statecharts. We define a development process for generating such modeling environments to maximize reuse through a novel statechart refinement technique.

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Towards task-based linguistic modeling for designing GUIs

Cited by 4 publications

References 11 publications

Towards Rapid Prototyping of Foldable Graphical User Interfaces with Flecto

Towards Rapid Prototyping of Foldable Graphical User Interfaces with Flecto

Ensuring the Consistency Between User Requirements and GUI Prototypes: A Behavior-Based Automated Approach

Adapting modeling environments to domain specific interactions

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