Using a tree view metaphor to visualize hardware simulation for testing

  • Authors:

  • Per Jacobsson

  • Affiliations:

  • Interactive Institute, Göteborg, Sweden

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

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Abstract

This papers suggests the use of a tree view metaphor as a suitable way of visualizing simulated hardware elements in a graphical user interface (GUI) for testing purposes. The prospective users declared a few comprehensive demands regarding the desired application - such as maximal availability of desktop space and ease of configuring and reconfiguring the hardware simulations. An application was prototyped and evaluated through interviews and an accompanying usability test. Preliminary evaluation shows that using the new GUI with the tree metaphore makes the task of configuration faster and saves desktop space.