Modeling animations for dependable interactive applications

  • Authors:
  • Thomas Mirlacher

  • Affiliations:
  • IRIT-ICS, Université Paul Sabatier, Toulouse, France

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

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Abstract

While today most parts of a graphical user interface are static, animations are increasingly used. This increase of use can be attributed to the fact that CPU resources remain available after the system's main functions are performed. Additionally, animations have been demonstrated useful to support the users in their understanding of the user interface's behavior and evolutions. However, adding animation significantly increases specification and implementation complexity. This paper elaborates on a model-based approach to describe animations in a complete and unambiguous way, while keeping the complexity low. Such models can then be exploited to predict the impact of an animation on system performance, users' performance and experience.