Graphical Interaction Management

In this paper, we propose an advance in the field of computer-aided development of interactive applications, which consists in a methodology that integrates the advantages of graph-based design with a visual construction of software applications using component assembly mechanisms. We have exploited such technique enhancing the visual approach to develop the graphic and interactive features of an application interface presented in TAGIVE (Tool for the Aided Generation of Interactive Visual Environments). The top-down development approach prevents possible incorrectness and incompleteness error. The visual development model for both static and dynamic aspects makes more intuitive the design and the implementation. This has the effect to support novice programmers in the development of software applications while reducing expert designers' workload.

2012 Sixth International Conference on Complex, Intelligent, and Software Intensive Systems, 2012

The field of human-centered computing has known a major progress these past few years. It is admitted that this field is multidisciplinary and that the human is the core of the system. It shows two matters of concern: multidisciplinary and human. The first one reveals that each discipline plays an important role in the global research and that the collaboration between everyone is needed. The second one explains that a growing number of researches aims at making the human commitment degree increase by giving him/her a decisive role in the human-machine interaction. This paper focuses on these both concerns and presents MICE (Machines Interaction Control in their Environment) which is a system where the human is the one who makes the decisions to manage the interaction with the machines. In an ambient context, the human can decide of objects actions by creating interaction scenarios with a new visual programming language: scenL.

1990

INGRID is an interactive tool for user interface construction. The tool enforces a specific user interface model that considers both the functional composition of the user interface elements and an object-oriented approach as the fundamental design and development methodology. The implementation of INGRID highlights three main components: a run-time support system for interactive programming (in C++), a toolkit that defines the abstract interfaces to the several components of the UI allowing integration of ...

Visual Database Systems 3, 1995

This paper presents Whizz'Ed, an experimental tool for construction of highly interactive or animated applications. Whizz'Ed makes it possible to visually describe by direct manipulation the behaviour of graphical objects and their interrelations. It provides elementary bricks that encapsulate basic interactive behaviours. Whizz'Ed aims at allowing designers to build visual programs in which the control structure is described using data-flows. The flow graph can be structured in order to reuse complex behaviours, thus allowing the designer to create new reusable bricks at design time. Whizz'Ed provide designers with a visual environment that can be used for building user interfaces as well as for database visualization.

Proceedings of the Tenth International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems, 2008

This paper presents the notion of (user interface development) platform administration and argues for its increasing importance in the context of modern interactive applications. Platform administration entails strategies for manipulating diverse interaction components. Four such strategies are elaborated-namely augmentation, expansion, integration and abstraction-which collectively constitute the ingredients of a platform administration process. The paper describes both the rationale for these strategies in the context of user interface development and their implementation details, as currently realized in an ongoing R&D project.

Software, IEEE, 1989

Proceedings of the IEEE, 1975

Minicomputers programmed in a high-level interactive language form a very attractive basis for the development of systems involving close man-computer collaboration. This paper is based on a wide range of experience of interactive minicomputer systems in commercial, medical, industrial, and scientific applications. It is first argued that the development of systems for effective man-computer collaboration requires not only interactive system use but also interactive system development. The designer needs to be able to tailor the system to user requirements at least partially as an experimental dialogue at a terminal with a user. There follows a critique of certain features of central computer utilities that limit their effectiveness in interactive applications, leading to a proposal for the use of minicomputer-based systems programmed, and used, interactively. We then give a number of case histories of our own experience in developing and using web systems in commercial, medical, and scientific applications From this experience, we have extracted a number of rubs for programming interaction between the user and computer system which we outlined. Finally, the main features of the software technology underlying these systems we briefly described.

COMPUTER,, 1990

Computer Graphics Forum, 1994

Although tools for developing graphical user interfaces are becoming increasingly popular, they do not usually highlight precisely which key elements developers should take into account. This still entails considerable expertise in developing user interfaces. In this paper we present an approach to overcome these problems. Our approach is based on a model for interaction objects and a corresponding design space. This is supported by a toolkit where the available interaction objects are initially classified by their semantics whereas in most current toolkits they are investigated by their appearance. This facilitates designers and developers in identifying the interactors needed in order to obtain an Interactive System supporting user tasks.

2014 47th Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences, 2014

Models of high-level interaction design are usually based on procedural representation. For knowledge representation and reasoning, however, declarative representations are preferred. In this paper, we define purely declarative high-level interaction models based on theories of human communication. In contrast, earlier attempts to define purely declarative models resulted for pragmatic reasons in a mixed representation including procedural constructs within the overall declarative model structure. We show how the declarative models can be operationalized into behavioral (abstract) UI models corresponding to those generated from the mixed representation. Based on an implementation integrated with an existing framework for GUI generation, we show that and how it is possible to automatically generate GUIs from purely declarative models as well.