A model-based tool for interactive prototyping of highly interactive applications

  • Authors:
  • Rémi Bastide;David Navarre;Philippe Palanque

  • Affiliations:
  • LIHS, University Toulouse 1, Toulouse, France;LIHS, University Toulouse 1, Toulouse, France;LIHS, University Toulouse 1, Toulouse, France

  • Venue:
  • CHI '02 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We present a model-based case tool dedicated to the prototyping of highly interactive (also called post-WIMP) applications. Such applications are challenging to model and to prototype, since they require the use of non-standard widgets and interaction techniques and exhibit a complex dynamic behavior. The tool, called PetShop, embodies the results of several years of research about the formal modeling of interactive systems, and its main application domain is safety-critical interactive applications such air-traffic control or military command and control systems. PetShop stands apart from most formal-based tools since it supports and promotes an iterative and user-centered design process, and also stands apart from most model-based tools since it goes beyond WIMP interfaces and does not sacrifice the formal validation of models.