"A model-driven approach for designing multi-platform user interface dialogues": dialogues specification

Human-computer interaction becomes sophisticated, multimodal and multi device and needs to be well-designed with the aim of facilitating application correction (i.e. to correcting errors/bugs in the application) or extension (i.e. adding new functionalities or modifying existing tasks). This thesis is focused on building a methodology of designing and specifying User Interface (UI) behaviour. The Unified Modelling Language (UML) is used to describe in detail the conceptual model and to define all its objects. The methodology flux diagram is provided with the specification of the consistency and the completeness properties of the transformation model. To support the methodology, we implement a graphic Dialog Editor in which Models are organized in three levels (abstract, concrete and final) according to Cameleon Reference Framework (CFR) and, whose process respects the Model Driven Engineering (MDE) approach. Furthermore, the use of Dialog Editor is illustrated through a simple exam...Les interfaces Homme-Machine deviennent de plus en plus complexes. Leur conception nécessite des nouveaux outils et/ou méthodes. En exploitant l'aproche orienté-modèle, cette thèse repond à ce besoin en proposant une méthodologie de conception des dialogues multi-plateform

The Guilet Dialog Model and Dialog Core for Graphical User Interfaces

Abstract. Model-based approaches to graphical user interfaces (GUIs) achieved poor acceptance of software engineers because the offer models, architectures, components, frameworks and libraries that restrict the flexibility of development too much. We propose a dialog model which enables flexible development with no restrictions on presentation and application layer and without any implementation-technology dependence. The dialog model supports GUI designers and developers in understanding the behavior of the GUI. The dialog model controls the dialog core component. The dialog component relieves GUI developers of re-implementing the coordination of presentation and application layer