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“User Interface Management Systems”

  • 1988 15 Cover User Interface Management Systems

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Entry Number: 15

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    User Interface Management Systems

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    TOPICS
    • Introduction/Olsen
    Goals for UlMSs
    • Tools to serve users and developers/Olsen
    Who is involved and what tools do they need?
    • Architecture of a UlMS-based application/Olsen
    Components of the Application
    External, internal, mixed control
    • Presentation issues/Rhyne
    What must be specified and how it is represented
    • Presentation tools/Rhyne
    Toolkits
    Specification by example
    • Evaluation of user interfaces/Rhyne
    What kinds of evaluation do we want?
    What tools are possible to support this evaluation?
    • Command and forms dialogues/Olsen
    • Window/object/eventdialogues/Olsen
    • Syntactic dialogues/Kasik
    Grammars and transition networks
    Dialog trees
    • Impact of UlMSs on software development and structure/
    Kasik
    How is the application structured differently?
    • Real world experience/Kasik
    • Future directions/Olsen


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Contributed By:


    Mary Whitton

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    Charles Babbage Institute Archives, University of Minnesota

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