Using communicative acts in interaction design specifications for automated synthesis of user interfaces

Authors:
Jurgen Falb;Thomas Rock;Edin Arnautovic
Affiliations:
Vienna University of Technology, ICT, Austria;Helmut Jelinek Siemens Austria, PSE A1210 Vienna, Austria;Vienna University of Technology, ICT A-1040 Vienna, Austria
Venue:
ASE '06 Proceedings of the 21st IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering
Year:
2006

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Abstract

Instead of developing user interfaces (UIs) directly, we argue for specifying an interaction design from which UIs can be automatically synthesized. We present an approach to using communicative acts in high-level specification of interaction design, which is implemented and allows automated synthesis of interfaces for multiple devices. Communicative acts derive from speech act theory and carry desired intentions in interactions. Models of communicative acts, UI domain objects and interaction sequences comprise interaction design specifications in our approach and are based on a metamodel that we have defined. As a result, the usability of a synthesized user interface of a real-world application turned out to be good.