Cascading Dialog Modeling with UsiXML

Authors:
Marco Winckler;Jean Vanderdonckt;Adrian Stanciulescu;Francisco Trindade
Affiliations:
IRIT, Université Toulouse 3, Toulouse cedex 9 (France), France F-31062 and Belgian Lab. of Computer-Human Interaction, Louvain School of Management, Université catholique de Louvain, Lou ...;Belgian Lab. of Computer-Human Interaction, Louvain School of Management, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 1 - B-1348;Belgian Lab. of Computer-Human Interaction, Louvain School of Management, Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium 1 - B-1348;Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS), Porto Alegre, Brazil 91501970
Venue:
Interactive Systems. Design, Specification, and Verification
Year:
2008

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Abstract

This paper discusses multi-level dialog specifications for user interfaces of multi-target interactive systems and it proposes a step-wise method that combines a transformational approach for model-to-model derivation and an interactive editing of dialog models for tailoring the derived models. This method provides a synthesis of existing solutions for dialog modeling using a XML-based User Interface Description Language, UsiXML, along with State WebCharts notation for expressing the dialog at a high level of abstraction. Our aim is to push forward the design and reuse of dialog specifications throughout several levels of abstraction ranging from task and domain models until the final user interface thanks to a mechanism based on cascading style sheets. In this way, it is expected that the dialog properties are not only inherited from one level to another but also are made much more reusable than in the past.