Some important features and issues in user interface management systems

  • Authors:
  • R D Hill

  • Affiliations:
  • Dynamic Graphics Project, Computer Science Research Institute, University of Toronto

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGGRAPH Computer Graphics
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

Some key features that are believed to be required in future User Interface Management Systems (UIMSs) are presented and discussed, as are some key philosophical issues. These features and issues concern the range and quality of user interfaces that can be supported, and the ease with which the user interfaces can be implemented and modified.The arguments presented are based on experience gained with the Sassafras UIMS. Sassafras is a prototype UMIS that was explicitly designed to support some features that were not common in UMISs, but were belived to be necessary to support many styles of interaction.