User Interface Management Systems

The book contains the proceedings and reports of the "Workshop on User Interface Management Systems", held in Seeheim, Federal Re public of Germany, November 1-3, 1983. The workshop brought toge ther experts in using and developing techniques for managing the dialo gue between users and interactive graphics systems. The purpose of the workshop was to produce an agreed report contrasting existing ap proaches, and outlining directions for future work. Four different areas were defined and addressed at the workshop, namely a) role, model, structure and construction of a UIMS b) dialogue specification tools c) interface of the UIMS to the application d) user's conceptual model All participants prepared papers each in one ofthose problem areas. The papers have been rewritten in the light of the issues discussed during the workshop. Also a subgroup report was produced for each problem area summarizing the results of the discussions at the workshop. Preface User Interface Management Systems (UlMS) are the mediators between the user and the application programs. As more and more in teractive programs become widely available,methods and techniques of designing and implementing acceptable user interfaces have to be inves tigated. Since many years, research on the design of user interface mana gement systems is going on. This EUROGRAPHICS Workshop follows from the ACM SIGGRAPH Workshop on Graphical Input and Interac tion Techniques of May, 1982 in Seattle (see: Computer Graphics 17(1), 1983), and the IFIP WG 5.

Inhalt
1 Subgroup Reports.- Report on Role, Model, Structure and Construction of a UIMS.- Report on Dialogue Specification Tools.- Report on the Interface of the UIMS to the Application.- Report on the User's Conceptual Model.- 2 Role, Model, Stmcture and Constmction of a UIMS.- Issues Pertaining to the Design of a User Interface Management System.- Components of Interactive Applications.- Communication Mediator A Structure for UIMS.- Some Issues in Future User Interface Management System (UlMS) Development.- Architecture for A User Interface Management System.- 3 Dialogue Specification Tools.- Design Notations and User Interface Management Systems.- Parallel Input and Feedback in Dialogue Cells.- Presentational, Syntactic and Semantic Components of Interactive Dialogue Specifications.- 4 Interfaces and Implementations of UIMS.- DIMS as Part of a CAD System.- The Unification ofa Dialogue Manager and a Graphics System.- The Flexible Configuration of Interaction Environments using GKS and Workspaces.- Recent Experiences with Input Handling at PMA.- Some Thoughts on the Interface Between User Interface Management Systems and Application Software.- 5 User's Conceptual Model.- The Role of a User's System Model, and its Relevance to User Interface Management.- A Model of a User's Conceptual Model of.