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From Usage Scenarios to User Interface Elements in a Few Steps |
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Hermann Kaindl and Rudolf Jezek, Siemens AG
Austria |
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[#121]: 2002 | Adobe .PDF File: about 302K. |
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Abstract: In practice, designers
often select user interface elements like widgets intuitively. So, important
design decisions may never become conscious or explicit, and therefore also
not traceable. In order to improve this situation, we propose a systematic
process for selecting user interface elements (in the form of widgets) in a
few explicitly defined steps, starting from usage scenarios. This process
provides a seamless way of going from scenarios through (attached) subtask
definitions and various task classifications and (de)compositions to widget
classes. In this way, it makes an important part of user interface design
more systematic and conscious. For an initial evaluation of the usefulness
of this approach, we conducted a small experiment that compares the widgets
of an industrial GUI that was developed as usual by experienced
practitioners, with the outcome of an independent execution of the proposed
process. Since the results of this experiment are encouraging, we suggest to
investigate this approach further in real-world practice. |
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Keywords: task analysis, usage
scenarios, user interface elements, widgets |
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Reprinted with permission of the authors
and publisher from C. Kolski and J. Vanderdonckt, editors,
Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces III, Proc. 4th
International Conference on Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces
(CADUI'2002), Valenciennes, France, May 2002. ISBN 1-4020-0643-8. Dordecht,
Netherlands: Kluwer (www.wkap.nl), 2002, pp. 91-102. |
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[#121]: 2002 | Adobe .PDF File: about 302K. |
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