SketchiXML: towards a multi-agent design tool for sketching user interfaces based on USIXML

  • Authors:
  • Adrien Coyette;Stéphane Faulkner;Manuel Kolp;Quentin Limbourg;Jean Vanderdonckt

  • Affiliations:
  • Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium);Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium);Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium);Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium);Université Catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve (Belgium)

  • Venue:
  • TAMODIA '04 Proceedings of the 3rd annual conference on Task models and diagrams
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

During these last years, many researchers have proposed new alternatives for early interface design based on hand-sketch. But these new alternatives seem to be dedicated to obsolescence as they only offer the possibility to generate user interfaces for a single platform in a unique language. Indeed, in a context where the number of computing-platforms and system environments is exploding, new alternatives should be considered. This paper presents an innovating alternative with SketchiXML, a multi-agent application able to handle several kinds of hand-drawn sources as input, and to provide the corresponding specification in USIXML (USer Interface eXtensible Markup Language), a platform-independent user interface description language.