Myers, B.A. State of the art in user interface software tools. In Advances in Human-Computer Interaction Hartson, H. and Hix, D. (Eds.), Ablex Publishing, 1991 The sounds will be controlled by MIDI. Almost all current computer systems either have built-in MIDI-controlled synthesisers (for example on sound cards or via DSP chips) or can easily be connected to them. Using MIDI will also  Home/Search   Document Not in Database   Summary   Related Articles   Check

....exposing functionality through a well defined API. Through relatively simple programming, they can be interconnected so they can work in concert with one another. As a toolkit set, widgets give the programmer a good repertoire of graphical components that can be used to assemble an interface 2 [12]. The result 1 Phidgets differ from Phicons [15] Phicons are input instruments, whereas phidgets are programmable components representing physical devices. 2 Myers [12] argues that there is a disparity in many GUI toolkits, where building control panels of widgets are extremely easy, but ....

....set, widgets give the programmer a good repertoire of graphical components that can be used to assemble an interface 2 [12] The result 1 Phidgets differ from Phicons [15] Phicons are input instruments, whereas phidgets are programmable components representing physical devices. 2 Myers [12] argues that there is a disparity in many GUI toolkits, where building control panels of widgets are extremely easy, but composing non widget graphics is hard. Figure 1. The Active Hydra [from 4] Rotating figurine servo motor Tippable figurine light sensors Proximity detector ultrasonic ....

Myers, B. State of the art in user interface software tools. In Baecker, R., Grudin, J. Buxton, W. and Greenberg, S. Reading in Human Computer Interaction: Towards the Year

.... [MR92] Such tools range from early subroutine libraries, e.g. toolboxes and widget sets, to UIMSs (user interface management systems) prototyping tools, and the more recent direct manipulation systems, also known as UI builders, that allow for the interactive assembly of UI components (see [Mye92] for a taxonomy) The diversity and complexity of UI tools make it difficult for managers and developers to identify the appropriate tools. Moreover, despite of the host of available tools, they often do not adequately respond to the particular needs at hand. These concerns, voiced, for ....

....of the scale are reasons that relate to the expertise around UI tools. Lack of experienced developers (1. lack of knowledge (2. and lack of time to investigate the tools (5. are all factors that reveal this problem. This is not surprising, given the proliferation and diversity of UI tools [Mye92] with the ensuing complexity of evaluating them in detail. The second most important set of reasons against the use of UI tools refers to the challenge of technological change [CKM 93, Fug93] Users are worried about lack of standardization (3. do not want to be tied to a particular tool ....

Brad A. Myers. State of the art in user interface software tools. In H. Rex Hartson and Deborah Hix, editors, Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 4. Ablex Publishing, 1992.

....situation. We feel this is necessary because the particular needs of speech tools and systems are difficult to meet using existing systems and scripting languages. First, while interactive tools are crucial to gaining insight or brainstorming for new ideas, they are known to be difficult to build [6]. One must learn about event driven programming, interface toolkits, a systems programming language such as C or C , computation on demand or lazy evaluation, and pipelining and threads to ensure immediate response for the GUI. For example, while it should be possible to interact directly with ....

B. A. Myers. State of the art in user interface software tools. Technical Report CS-92-114, CMU, February 1992.

....[14] and more recently C32 [15] allow the user to define the layout of objects by describing the relationships between them. Although such systems can be very effective at capturing the desired layout, they do require a complex system to resolve constraints at run time and can be hard to debug [16]. Systems based on pre defined layout algorithms [17, 5] are much easier to implement but cannot easily be extended to cater for new layouts. Our approach to capturing layout, based on composition axes , falls somewhere between the two. For each entity type (or group of types) which can be ....

Myers, B. A., `State of the Art in User Interface Software Tools', to be published in Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 4, R. Hartson and D. Hix (Eds), Ablex, 1992

....94] 4 Introduction User interface software tools solve the problems of direct GUI programming (i.e. toolkits) by allowing the interface to be specified in a simpler manner. User interface software tools can aid in the task of GUI development through a combination of four features. Myers 92b] The tool can help design the interface based on the end users tasks or help implement the interface based on the design. It can allow the programmer to rapidly generate different interface designs (e.g. transformations are automatic generations of functionally equivalent user interfaces) Most ....

....approaches or specification techniques, but are categorized on their overall architecture. A. Requirements The purpose of utilizing user interface tools over traditional methods can be viewed quite simply as increasing the programmer s efficiency and the code s performance and accuracy. Myers [Myers 92b] first point is that the resulting interfaces will be of a higher quality. The increase in quality is due to the iterative nature of user interface tools. User interface tools allow the programmer to quickly and easily implement the interface and to consider design alternatives, possibly before ....

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Myers, Brad A. "State of the Art in User Interface Software Tools." Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, Vol. 4. Ed. H. R. Hartson and D. Hix. Norwood, N.J., Ablex Publishing, 1993.

....made by human designers. Because of this, they provide human designers with very little control over those decisions. Unfortunately, generating good interface designs is intrinsically difficult. Thus, the resulting automatically generated interfaces either are not good enough for real use [10], or have rather limited styles. The best is the menu driven style, which is limited to generating the dialogue portions of the display because the application display area is too hard to generate automatically. The technical barriers to effective automation are hard to overcome. The design ....

B. A. Myers. State of the Art in User Interface Software Tools. In H. Rex Hartson and Deborah Hix. Ed., Advances in Human-Computer Interaction, Volume 4, Ablex Publishing, 1992.

....In this context it is important to be able to verify that they behave as intended. As empirical evidence suggests that the only reliable method for generating quality user interfaces is to test prototypes with actual end users and modify the design based on the users comments and performance [28], the issue of verifying that a user interface implementation meets certain formal requirements arises. In this paper we describe a framework for doing this based on (machine assisted 4 ) formal proof: we construct mathematical descriptions of both the user interface and the property to be ....

Brad A. Myers. State of the Art in User Interface Software Tools, chapter 5, pages 110--150. Ablex, Norwood, N.J., 1992.

....and safety critical applications. Many HCI techniques involve prototyping; indeed, empirical evidence suggests that the only reliable method for generating quality user interfaces is to test prototypes with actual end users and modify the design based on the users comments and performance [Mye92] In order to determine if prototypes behave as expected, fault 1 detection techniques can be applied. One fault detection technique often used in conjunction with prototyping is testing. While testing can be effective there are limitations, especially with respect to GUI based applications. ....

Brad A. Myers. State of the Art in User Interface Software Tools, chapter 5, pages 110--150. Ablex, Norwood, N.J., 1992.

....is usually the methodology of choice for developing user interfaces. Indeed, empirical evidence suggests that the only reliable method for generating quality user interfaces is to test prototypes with actual end users and modify the design based on the users comments and performance [Mye92] However, the prototyping approach to user interface development is not without drawbacks. One criticism is that it does not provide the same assurance as formal approaches that requirements are being met. This is especially of concern in safety and security critical applications. In part, this ....

Brad A. Myers. State of the Art in User Interface Software Tools, chapter 5, pages 110--150. Ablex, Norwood, N.J., 1992.

....of graphically presenting network diagrams (useful in the process of design) and occasionally, for the less expressive versions, in the possibility of formally analysing them. Unsurprisingly to linguists, they became criticised for being large and unwieldy for complex interfaces (Green, 1986; Myers, 1993; Abowd et al. 1995) and for being insufficiently inexpressive. Examples were presented which finite state and recursive networks could not describe intuitively or at all (Green, 1986; Alexander, 1990) The desire for expressiveness and a simple execution model also led to the use of augmented ....

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