User Interface Management and Design

This volume is a record of the Workshop on User Interface Management Systems and Environments held at INESC, Lisbon, Portugal, between 4 and 6 June 1990. The main impetus for the workshop came from the Graphics and Interaction in ESPRIT Technical Interest Group of the European Community ESPRIT Programme. The Graphics and Interac­ tion in ESPRIT Technical Interest Group arose from a meeting of researchers held in Brussels in May 1988, which identified a number of technical areas of common interest across a significant number of ESPRIT I and ESPRIT II projects. It was recognized that there was a need to share information on such activities between projects, to disseminate results from the projects to the world at large, and for projects to be aware of related activities elsewhere in the world. The need for a Technical Interest Group was confirmed at a meeting held during ESPRIT Technical Week in November 1989, attended by over 50 representatives from ESPRIT projects and the Commission of the European Communities. Information exchange sessions were organized during the EUROGRAPHICS '89 confer­ ence, with the intention of disseminating information from ESPRIT projects to the wider research and development community, both in Europe and beyond.

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I Invited Presentations, Discussions and Conclusions.- Invited Presentations.- 1. Critique of the Seeheim Model.- 2. The Reference Model of Computer Graphics.- 3. The Architectural Bases of Design Re-use.- Working Group Discussions.- 4. Concepts, Methods, Methodologies Working Group.- 5. Current Practice Working Group.- 6. Multi-media and Visual Programming.- 7. Toolkits, Environments and the Object Oriented Paradigm.- Workshop Conclusions.- 8. Conclusions.- II Concepts, Models and Methodologies.- 9. Some Comments on the Future of User Interface Tools.- 10. Modelling User Interface Software.- 11. GMENUS: An Ada Concurrent User Interface Management System.- 12. Usability Engineering and User Interface Management.- 13. Designing the Next Generation of UIMSs.- 14. Intelligent Interfaces and UIMS.- 15. Assembling a User Interface out of Communicating Processes.- III Current Practice.- 16. IUICE - An Interactive User Interface Construction Environment.- 17. Dialogue Specification for Knowledge Based Systems.- 18. SYSECA's Experience in UIMS for Industrial Applications.- 19. The Growth of a MOSAIC.- 20. A Framework for Integrating UIMS and User Task Models in the Design of User Interfaces.- 21. PROMETHEUS: A System for Programming Graphical User Interfaces.- IV Visual Programming, Multi-Media and UI Generators.- 22. An Environment for User Interface Development Based on the ATN and Petri Nets Notations.- 23. Creating Interaction Primitives.- V Toolkits, Environments and the OO Paradigm.- 24. The Composite Object User Interface Architecture.- 25. An Overview of GINA - the Generic Interactive Application.- 26. The Use of OPEN LOOK/Motif GUI Standards for Applications in Control Systems Design.- 27. The OO-AGES Model - An Overview.- List of Participants.