Graphical specification of flexible user interface displays

  • Authors:
  • S. E. Hudson

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ

  • Venue:
  • UIST '89 Proceedings of the 2nd annual ACM SIGGRAPH symposium on User interface software and technology
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

This paper describes the implementation concepts behind the user interface editor of the Apogee UIMS. This editor allows many aspects of a user interface to be specified graphically without a conventional textual specification. The system supports the specification of flexible user interfaces — ones that can adapt automatically to changes in the size of objects they present and that can adapt to specific user needs in a dynamic and responsive fashion. To serve as an implementation base for this editor, the Apogee UIMS supports an active data model based on one-way constraints. This model is implemented by a small object-oriented programming language embedded within the system.