Publication Details
Title: An Object-Oriented Approach to the Design of Graphical User Interface Systems
Author: F. Paterno
Group: ICSI Technical Reports
Date: August 1992
PDF: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/techreports/TR-92-046.pdf
Overview:
In this paper the problems concerning the design of graphical user interface systems composed of a set of interaction objects allowing users to interact with structured graphics are presented. Here we want to point out the problems and the requirements that are raised in performing such a design in an object-oriented environment. For this purpose the importance of task-oriented design of interaction objects in order to make the translation from the user task to the system functions easier is addressed. The design of a hierarchy of interaction objects following this approach is proposed. This contrast with the current window systems toolkits design because it is mainly driven by the semantics of the interaction object rather than their appearance. Finally an example of common graphical interface performed by the proposed approach is presented.
Bibliographic Information:
ICSI Technical Report TR-92-046
Bibliographic Reference:
F. Paterno. An Object-Oriented Approach to the Design of Graphical User Interface Systems. ICSI Technical Report TR-92-046, August 1992
Author: F. Paterno
Group: ICSI Technical Reports
Date: August 1992
PDF: http://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/techreports/TR-92-046.pdf
Overview:
In this paper the problems concerning the design of graphical user interface systems composed of a set of interaction objects allowing users to interact with structured graphics are presented. Here we want to point out the problems and the requirements that are raised in performing such a design in an object-oriented environment. For this purpose the importance of task-oriented design of interaction objects in order to make the translation from the user task to the system functions easier is addressed. The design of a hierarchy of interaction objects following this approach is proposed. This contrast with the current window systems toolkits design because it is mainly driven by the semantics of the interaction object rather than their appearance. Finally an example of common graphical interface performed by the proposed approach is presented.
Bibliographic Information:
ICSI Technical Report TR-92-046
Bibliographic Reference:
F. Paterno. An Object-Oriented Approach to the Design of Graphical User Interface Systems. ICSI Technical Report TR-92-046, August 1992