Interface Design Tools Project

Abstract

This report describes an effort to provide tools that assist in the design and development of user interfaces. Human factors knowledge is used to provide an intelligent capability which can be applied to generate interface alternatives and the underlying code for those alternatives. Two gaps evident in available tools for dealing with windows were also addressed: clustering windows and linking windows. Clustering deals with the grouping of multiple windows, and the tools provided facilitate the specification of screen configurations. Linking tools provide mechanisms to specify and enforce functional dependency between windows so that when what is in one changes the other windows change in prespecified ways.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Aug 01, 1991
Accession Number
ADA242581

Entities

People

  • Bruce Papazian
  • Dan Cerys
  • R. B. Roberts
  • William J. Salter

Organizations

  • BBN Technologies

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • C4I
  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acquisition
  • Air Force
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Clustering
  • Command And Control
  • Computational Science
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Engineering
  • Governments
  • Information Exchange
  • Information Processing
  • Specifications
  • United States
  • United States Government
  • User Interface
  • User Interface Engineering

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Neural Network Machine Learning.
  • Software Engineering
  • Systems Analysis and Design