A Technique That Supports Evaluation and Design of User Interfaces

  • I. Mistrik
  • D. A. Nelson
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Abstract

We describe an initial attempt to incorporate results from the empirical evaluation of user interfaces in existing Interactive Information Systems (IISs) into a description of a generic User Interface (UI/F) of broad applicability. This generic UI/F is based on a display-screen-oriented user/system dialog that emphasizes the user’s roles as pattern recognizer and selector and the IISs’ roles as presenter of information and choices to the user.

The technique and its descriptive and representational abstractions have been applied to the evaluation and redesign of the UI/F for an existing IIS. The technique, as presented, employs a multi-level dialog description and generic, structured, screen representations of the state of the user/system dialog that are topologically consistent from state to state, but are adaptable to changing user needs and varying screen information content.

Keywords

User Interface Display Screen Selection Menu Entity Instance Cursor Control 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • I. Mistrik
    • 1
  • D. A. Nelson
    • 2
  1. 1.Gesellschaft für Information und Dokumentation mbH(GID)Heidelberg 1Germany
  2. 2.Information EngineeringGarmisch-PartenkirchenGermany

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