KIISS: a system for visual specification of model-based user interfaces

Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. F. Saiz, J. Contreras, and R. Moriyón, “KIISS: a system for visual specification of model-based user interfaces”, in Computer Human Interaction Conference, 1998. Proceedings. 1998 Australasian, Adelaide, SA, 1998, pp. 306-313The appearance of model-based techniques for interface development has simplified the design of complex interactive applications, but this approach still requires from the designer a high knowledge level about the textual specification required. This paper presents a system, called KIISS (Knowledge-based Interactive Interface Surgery System), which allows the designer of an application to interactively define the model of its interface through visual specifications on an application example. Thus, the system enhances the model by allowing its use by designers who are not quite familiar with the textual specifications required for a user interface development. Moreover, reusability is preserved, since parts of existing applications can be both exchanged and modified interactivelyKIISS is partially supported by the Plan National de Investigation, Programa National de Tecnologia de Information y de las Comunicaciones, Spain, project number TIC93-0268, and a special grant from Comunidad de Madrid (Action Especial KIISS)

Automatización de la generación de cursos tutores para software interactivo

Tesis doctoral inédita leída en la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Escuela Técnica Superior de Informática. Fecha de lectura: 25-01-0

Un método para la aplicación de documentación inteligente en la instanciación de Frameworks orientados a objetos

Tesis inédita de la Universidad Autónoma de Madrid. Escuela Técnica Superior de Informática, Departamento de Ingeniería Informática

A Framework for the Automatic Generation of Software Tutoring

Interactive Systems present an ever increasing complexity both to their users as well as to their designers. These systems may require a great effort to be mastered by a new user. Therefore, some kind of tutoring for these applications must be provided, in such a way that it does not represent duplicating the work of the designer. This paper describes an approach for automatically generating a tutoring system for the tasks defined in an application, using some particular information on tutoring that these tasks may have. At the same time an editor of these tasks is provided to the designer. The kind of tutoring automatically generated has a variable degree of flexibility in face of user actions, according to the designer's criteria, and it is performed using the real application, not a simulation. This means that the final user can actually work while he is learning how to perform a task. The ideas here presented have been implemented in two small prototypes, Teach me While I Work (TWIW) and Task Models Editor (TME). Keywords Software tutoring, task models, user interface design, interactive systems specification, programming by demonstration