Building a Web-Features Taxonomy for Structuring Web Design Guidelines

This paper proposes a framework for structuring web design guidelines that incorporates the hierarchies of web features and their semantic relationships with HTML and CSS. It is argued that this approach will be synchronous with the mental model of web designers, thus making the guidelines more usable. In addition, this approach embraces both external and internal aspects of web design, so there is little compromise on the coverage of web design issues. An experiment was conducted to compare the relative effectiveness of the proposed framework with other guideline structures (e.g., principle-oriented and a mixture of principle and feature-oriented). There was evidence that the principle-oriented guidelines performed worse than the other structures, but the analyses failed to establish that the proposed framework as the most effective. The experiment showed promising results but it suffered from small sample size. In spite of this, it is believed that the proposed taxonomy and framework has laid the groundwork for future research.Yeshttps://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/manuscript-submission-guideline

ISML: an interface specification meta-language

In this paper we present an abstract metaphor model situated within a model-based user interface framework. The inclusion of metaphors in graphical user interfaces is a well established, but mostly craft-based strategy to design. A substantial body of notations and tools can be found within the model-based user interface design literature, however an explicit treatment of metaphor and its mappings to other design views has yet to be addressed. We introduce the Interface Specification Meta-Language (ISML) framework and demonstrate its use in comparing the semantic and syntactic features of an interactive system. Challenges facing this research are outlined and further work proposed

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT i

First of all, we are grateful to the organizers of INTERACT 2005, who have granted us the valuable opportunity to hold our Workshop “International COST294 Workshop on User Interface Quality Models (UIQM) ” in conjunction with the conference, and also provided the timely support for printing this Workshop’s Proceedings. Thanks must also go to the authors of the Workshop papers, whose contributions serve as rich sources of stimulation and inspiration to explore the issues of interest from multiple perspectives. The quality of the contributions could further be ensured and improved with the generous help of a group of reviewers, who are leading researchers and experts in the field of usability evaluation. Their prompt responses to our calls for peer review, and their effective as well as efficient review works are highly appreciated