Ebook: User Interface Management and Design: Proceedings of the Workshop on User Interface Management Systems and Environments Lisbon, Portugal, June 4–6, 1990

This volume is a record of the Workshop on User Interface Management Systems and Environments held at INESC, Lisbon, Portugal, between 4 and 6 June 1990. The main impetus for the workshop came from the Graphics and Interaction in ESPRIT Technical Interest Group of the European Community ESPRIT Programme. The Graphics and Interac­ tion in ESPRIT Technical Interest Group arose from a meeting of researchers held in Brussels in May 1988, which identified a number of technical areas of common interest across a significant number of ESPRIT I and ESPRIT II projects. It was recognized that there was a need to share information on such activities between projects, to disseminate results from the projects to the world at large, and for projects to be aware of related activities elsewhere in the world. The need for a Technical Interest Group was confirmed at a meeting held during ESPRIT Technical Week in November 1989, attended by over 50 representatives from ESPRIT projects and the Commission of the European Communities. Information exchange sessions were organized during the EUROGRAPHICS '89 confer­ ence, with the intention of disseminating information from ESPRIT projects to the wider research and development community, both in Europe and beyond.

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This volume gives the proceedings of the Workshop on User Interface Management Systems and Environments held at INESC, Lisbon, Portugal, June 4-6, 1990. The main impetus for the workshop came from the Graphics and Interaction in ESPRIT Technical Interest Group of the European Community ESPRIT Programme. Several of the foundational concepts in User Interface Management Systems (UIMS) were established at the Eurographics workshop held in Seeheim in November 1983 with well-known proceedings published in this series. In the meantime, the development of windowing systems, object-oriented methodologies and AI-inspired techniques has proceeded on a scale which was hard to anticipate a few years ago. The purpose of this workshop was to re-examine the basic notion of a UIMS and to question its continued appropriateness in the context of current and probable future systems. This entailed an attempt to relate the notion to the newer paradigm of a "user interface development environment" and an assessment of the impact of "knowledge engineering" both in the interface and in the application.

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This volume gives the proceedings of the Workshop on User Interface Management Systems and Environments held at INESC, Lisbon, Portugal, June 4-6, 1990. The main impetus for the workshop came from the Graphics and Interaction in ESPRIT Technical Interest Group of the European Community ESPRIT Programme. Several of the foundational concepts in User Interface Management Systems (UIMS) were established at the Eurographics workshop held in Seeheim in November 1983 with well-known proceedings published in this series. In the meantime, the development of windowing systems, object-oriented methodologies and AI-inspired techniques has proceeded on a scale which was hard to anticipate a few years ago. The purpose of this workshop was to re-examine the basic notion of a UIMS and to question its continued appropriateness in the context of current and probable future systems. This entailed an attempt to relate the notion to the newer paradigm of a "user interface development environment" and an assessment of the impact of "knowledge engineering" both in the interface and in the application.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Critique of the Seeheim Model....Pages 3-6
The Reference Model of Computer Graphics....Pages 7-13
The Architectural Bases of Design Re-use....Pages 15-34
Concepts, Methods, Methodologies Working Group....Pages 35-49
Current Practice Working Group....Pages 51-56
Multi-media and Visual Programming....Pages 57-60
Toolkits, Environments and the Object Oriented Paradigm....Pages 61-64
Conclusions....Pages 65-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Some Comments on the Future of User Interface Tools....Pages 71-85
Modelling User Interface Software....Pages 87-100
GMENUS: An Ada Concurrent User Interface Management System....Pages 101-112
Usability Engineering and User Interface Management....Pages 113-122
Designing the Next Generation of UIMS....Pages 123-133
Intelligent Interfaces and UIMS....Pages 135-144
Assembling a User Interface out of Communication Processes....Pages 145-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
IUICE — An Interactive User Interface Construction Environment....Pages 153-168
Dialogue Specification for Knowledge Based Systems....Pages 169-178
SYSECA’s Experience in UIMS for Industrial Applications....Pages 179-194
The Growth of a MOSAIC....Pages 195-201
A Framework for Integrating UIMS and User Task Models in the Design of User Interfaces....Pages 203-216
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
PROMETHEUS: A System for Programming Graphical User Interfaces....Pages 217-228
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
An Environment for User Interface Development Based on the ATN and Petri Nets Notations....Pages 231-245
Creating Interaction Primitives....Pages 247-253
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
The Composite Object User Interface Architecture....Pages 257-271
An Overview of GINA — the Generic Interactive Application....Pages 273-293
The Use of OPEN LOOK/Motif GUI Standards for Applications in Control System Design....Pages 295-305
The OO-AGES Model — An Overview....Pages 307-321
Back Matter....Pages 323-326

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This volume gives the proceedings of the Workshop on User Interface Management Systems and Environments held at INESC, Lisbon, Portugal, June 4-6, 1990. The main impetus for the workshop came from the Graphics and Interaction in ESPRIT Technical Interest Group of the European Community ESPRIT Programme. Several of the foundational concepts in User Interface Management Systems (UIMS) were established at the Eurographics workshop held in Seeheim in November 1983 with well-known proceedings published in this series. In the meantime, the development of windowing systems, object-oriented methodologies and AI-inspired techniques has proceeded on a scale which was hard to anticipate a few years ago. The purpose of this workshop was to re-examine the basic notion of a UIMS and to question its continued appropriateness in the context of current and probable future systems. This entailed an attempt to relate the notion to the newer paradigm of a "user interface development environment" and an assessment of the impact of "knowledge engineering" both in the interface and in the application.
Content:
Front Matter....Pages I-VIII
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Critique of the Seeheim Model....Pages 3-6
The Reference Model of Computer Graphics....Pages 7-13
The Architectural Bases of Design Re-use....Pages 15-34
Concepts, Methods, Methodologies Working Group....Pages 35-49
Current Practice Working Group....Pages 51-56
Multi-media and Visual Programming....Pages 57-60
Toolkits, Environments and the Object Oriented Paradigm....Pages 61-64
Conclusions....Pages 65-67
Front Matter....Pages 69-69
Some Comments on the Future of User Interface Tools....Pages 71-85
Modelling User Interface Software....Pages 87-100
GMENUS: An Ada Concurrent User Interface Management System....Pages 101-112
Usability Engineering and User Interface Management....Pages 113-122
Designing the Next Generation of UIMS....Pages 123-133
Intelligent Interfaces and UIMS....Pages 135-144
Assembling a User Interface out of Communication Processes....Pages 145-150
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
IUICE — An Interactive User Interface Construction Environment....Pages 153-168
Dialogue Specification for Knowledge Based Systems....Pages 169-178
SYSECA’s Experience in UIMS for Industrial Applications....Pages 179-194
The Growth of a MOSAIC....Pages 195-201
A Framework for Integrating UIMS and User Task Models in the Design of User Interfaces....Pages 203-216
Front Matter....Pages 151-151
PROMETHEUS: A System for Programming Graphical User Interfaces....Pages 217-228
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
An Environment for User Interface Development Based on the ATN and Petri Nets Notations....Pages 231-245
Creating Interaction Primitives....Pages 247-253
Front Matter....Pages 255-255
The Composite Object User Interface Architecture....Pages 257-271
An Overview of GINA — the Generic Interactive Application....Pages 273-293
The Use of OPEN LOOK/Motif GUI Standards for Applications in Control System Design....Pages 295-305
The OO-AGES Model — An Overview....Pages 307-321
Back Matter....Pages 323-326
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