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Managing non-native widgets in model-based UI engineering

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Dimitrios KotsalisAuthors Info & Claims

EICS '09: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems

Pages 313 - 316

https://doi.org/10.1145/1570433.1570492

Published: 15 July 2009 Publication History

Abstract

This paper sets out to describe on-going research and development activities aiming to provide new insights to building advanced user interfaces by assembling diverse widgets. To this end, we draw upon the relative merits and drawbacks of the two dominant approaches for developing interactive applications, namely toolkit programming and model-based user interface engineering. We motivate the problem by considering a simple example representative of what toolkit programming may deliver and then contrast its implications on prevailing model-based UI principles and practice. Our analysis reveals the key role of widget abstraction in developing specification-based tools to manage radically different widget sets in a uniform manner. The ultimate goal of this work is to extend MBUI engineering approaches so as to enable them to take account of richer interaction vocabularies becoming increasingly available.

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Rathfux TPopp RKaindl HLuyten KPalanque PCampos JSchmidt A(2016)Adding custom widgets to model-driven GUI generationProceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems10.1145/2933242.2933251(16-26)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2933242.2933251
Paulheim HPecheur CAndrews JDi Nitto E(2010)Seamlessly integrated, but loosely coupledProceedings of the 25th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering10.1145/1858996.1859017(123-126)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1858996.1859017
Paulheim HErdogan ASukaviriya NVanderdonckt JHarrison M(2010)Seamless integration of heterogeneous UI componentsProceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems10.1145/1822018.1822067(303-308)Online publication date: 19-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1822018.1822067

Index Terms

Managing non-native widgets in model-based UI engineering
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interaction paradigms
      1. Graphical user interfaces
2. Software and its engineering
  1. Software creation and management
    1. Designing software
      1. Software implementation planning
        Software design techniques
    2. Software development process management
      1. Software development methods
  2. Software notations and tools
    1. Context specific languages
      1. Interface definition languages
    2. Development frameworks and environments
      1. Integrated and visual development environments

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EICS '09: Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems

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ISBN:9781605586007

DOI:10.1145/1570433

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Rathfux TPopp RKaindl HLuyten KPalanque PCampos JSchmidt A(2016)Adding custom widgets to model-driven GUI generationProceedings of the 8th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems10.1145/2933242.2933251(16-26)Online publication date: 21-Jun-2016
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/2933242.2933251
Paulheim HPecheur CAndrews JDi Nitto E(2010)Seamlessly integrated, but loosely coupledProceedings of the 25th IEEE/ACM International Conference on Automated Software Engineering10.1145/1858996.1859017(123-126)Online publication date: 20-Sep-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1858996.1859017
Paulheim HErdogan ASukaviriya NVanderdonckt JHarrison M(2010)Seamless integration of heterogeneous UI componentsProceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGCHI symposium on Engineering interactive computing systems10.1145/1822018.1822067(303-308)Online publication date: 19-Jun-2010
https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1822018.1822067

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