Critical Issues in User Interface Systems EngineeringDavid Benyon, Philippe Palanque This book developed from an IFIP workshop which brought together methods and architecture researchers in Human Computer Interaction and Software Engineering. To an extent this introduction is a little unfair to the authors, as we have distilled the results of the workshop to give the reader a perspective of the problems within integrated approaches to usability engineering. The papers could not hope to address all ofthe issues; however, we hope that a framework will help the reader gainfurther insights into current research andfuture practice. The initial motivation was to bring together researchers and practitioners to exchange their experiences on Graphical User Interface (Gill) design problems. The two groups represented methodological and architecture/tools interests, so the workshop focused on intersection of how methods can support user interface development and vice versa, how tools, architectures and reusable components can empower the design process. There is, we believe, a constructive tension between these two communities. Methodologists tend to approach the design problem with task/domain/organisational analysis while the tool builders suggest design empowerment/envisioning as a means ofimproving the way users work rather than relying on analysis ofcurrent systems. This debate revolves around the questions of whether users' current work is optimal, or whether designers have the insight to empower users by creating effective solutions to their problems. Tool builders typically want to build something, then get the users to try it, while the methodologists want to specify something, validate it and then build it. |
Contents
Domain Modelling | 1 |
Domain Specific Design of User Interfaces Case Handling and Data Entry | 21 |
A Method for TaskRelated Information Analysis | 37 |
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activities agent application domain approach aspects attributes basic behaviour CIOS cognitive communication complex components constraints construction context contextual information database decision defined described design process development process diagrams display entities entity-relationship model environment ergonomic ETAG evaluation example Figure focus formal framework Functional Core goal graphical human Human-Computer Interaction hypertext identified implementation input integration interaction objects interactive systems interactor interface elements interface metaphors internal iterative language levels of abstraction Literate Development mapping metaphor-based methodology methods module nodes notations object-oriented organisation output PAC-Amodeus Palanque performed Petri net phase possible presentation problem procedures prototypes query referees relationships representation requirements result root window scenarios Seeheim selected semantic software architecture software engineering software system strategy structure system model task analysis task model task-based techniques toolkit trigger types usability user interface design user's visual window