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A Framework for Integrating UIMS and User Task Models in the Design of User Interfaces

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This paper describes work towards the development of a framework for relating User Interface Management System (UIMS) architectural models and User Task Models (UTMs). The aim of the framework is to enable us to position features of user interface models and features of user task models in a common space. As a preliminary to the framework, we review recent work in both fields and identify the elements of user tasks and user interfaces (as reflected by UIMS architectures). We then propose an initial version of a framework to integrate the two forms of model.

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  1. Informatics Department, Rutherford Appleton Laboratory, OX11 0QX, Chilton, Didcot, Oxon, UK

    David A. Duce  & F. Robert A. Hopgood  & 

  2. Rua Alves Redol, 9-2°, P-1017, Lisboa Codex, Portugal

    M. Rui Gomes

  3. Department of Architecture, EdCAAD, University of Edinburgh, 20 Chambers Street, EH1 1JZ, Edinburgh, UK

    John R. Lee

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Johnson, P., Drake, K., Wilson, S. (1991). A Framework for Integrating UIMS and User Task Models in the Design of User Interfaces. In: Duce, D.A., Gomes, M.R., Hopgood, F.R.A., Lee, J.R. (eds) User Interface Management and Design. EurographicSeminars. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-76283-3_20

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