Towards A Task-Based Methodology For Designing GUIs

  • Authors:
  • Chris Phillips

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SEEP '96 Proceedings of the 1996 International Conference on Software Engineering: Education and Practice (SE:EP '96)
  • Year:
  • 1996

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Abstract

Task models are an important abstraction in the design of graphical user interfaces (GUIs). In this paper the role of task modeling in interface development is briefly reviewed, and an experimental methodology for high level GUI design is described in which task modeling forms a continuous thread. The methodology includes a task decomposition derived from essential modeling, the construction of a dialogue specification using Lean Cuisine+, and a mapping from Lean Cuisine+ into User Action Notation which opens the way for the construction of a prototype of the interface under design. An example is used to illustrate this approach to GUI design. Keywords: High-level GUI design, task modeling, dialogue specification, user actions