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Using communicative acts in high-level specifications of user interfaces for their automated synthesis

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Proceedings of the 20th IEEE/ACM international Conference on Automated software engineering, page 429--430. New York, NY, USA, ACM, (2005)
DOI: 10.1145/1101908.1101988

Abstract

User interfaces are very important for the success of many computer-based applications these days. However, their development takes time, requires experts for user-interface design as well as experienced programmers and is very expensive. This problem becomes even more severe through the ubiquitous use of a variety of devices such as PCs, mobile phones, PDAs etc., since each of these devices has its own specifics that require a special user interface.Therefore, we developed a tool-supported approach to automatically synthesize multi-device user interfaces from high-level specifications in the form of models. In contrast to previous approaches focusing on abstracting the user interface per se, we make use of <i>communicative acts</i> derived from speech act theory for the specification of desired user intentions in interactions. In this way, we approach a solution to the given problem, since user interfaces can be efficiently provided without experience in implementing them.

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