Automated generation of device-specific WIMP UIs: weaving of structural and behavioral models

  • Authors:
  • David Raneburger;Roman Popp;Hermann Kaindl;Jürgen Falb;Dominik Ertl

  • Affiliations:
  • Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria;Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria;Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria;Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria;Vienna University of Technology, Vienna, Austria

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

Any graphical user interface needs to have defined structure and behavior. So, in particular, models of Window / Icon / Menu / Pointing Device (WIMP) UIs need to represent structure and behavior at some level of abstraction, possibly in separate models. High-level conceptual models such as Task or Discourse Models do not model the UI per se. Therefore, in the course of automated generation of (WIMP) UIs from such models, structure and behavior of the UI need to be generated, and they need to fit together. In order to achieve that, we devised a new approach to weaving structural and behavioral models on different levels of abstraction.