Towards a Formal Notion of Interaction Pattern

  • Authors:
  • Paolo Bottoni;Esther Guerra;Juan de Lara

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • VLHCC '10 Proceedings of the 2010 IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

While interaction patterns are becoming widespread in the field of interface design, their definitions do not enjoy a common standard yet, as is for software patterns. Moreover, patterns are developed for diverse design aspects, reflecting the complexity of the field. As a consequence, research on formalization of interaction patterns is not developed, and few attempts have been made to extend techniques developed for design pattern formalization. We show here how an extension to our recent approach to pattern formalization can be usefully employed to formalize some classes of interaction patterns, to express relations among them, and to detect conflicts.