Fabio Paterno

Model-Based Design and Evaluation of Interactive Applications (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book covers methods for user interface design and evaluation. It shows how the systematic use of task models can make the design and development of interactive software applications easier and more effective, and how it can lead to improved usability. Useful examples of how to apply the methods will be of interest to application developers. A website containing additional exercises and pointers to relevant freeware will also be available.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Springer London
• Seitenzahl: 196
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781447104452
• Artikelnr.: 44052491

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction.- 1.1 Why model-based design and evaluation of interactive applications ?.- 1.2 Basic concepts.- 1.3 Structure of the book and intended audience.- 1.4 Other sources of information.- 2 Model-Based Approaches.- 2.1 Task-oriented approaches.- 2.2 GOMS.- 2.3 Norman's cycle.- 2.4 Task analysis methods.- 2.5 UAN.- 2.6 Petri Nets.- 2.7 UML.- 2.8 Formal Methods for HCI.- 2.9 Exercises.- 3 Analysis of Interactive Applications.- 3.1 Scenarios.- 3.2 Use Cases.- 3.3 Task analysis.- 3.4 Support for task identification in informal scenarios.- 3.5 Task and errors.- 3.6 Exercises.- 4 The Concurtasktrees Notation.- 4.1 Introduction to ConcurTaskTrees.- 4.2 Task allocation.- 4.3 Temporal relationships.- 4.4 Task types.- 4.5 Additional information associated with tasks.- 4.6 Structuring the task model.- 4.7 Example of ConcurTaskTrees specification.- 4.8 Tool support.- 4.9 Task models for cooperative applications.- 4.10 Exercises.- 5 Task-Based Design.- 5.1 Approaches to task-based design.- 5.2 Aspects to consider when designing user interfaces.- 5.3 Criteria for grouping tasks to be supported by the same presentation.- 5.4 Task-driven design of user interfaces.- 5.5 An example.- 5.6 Tasks for accessing databases.- 5.7 Task-oriented help.- 5.8 Adaptability.- 5.9 Adaptivity.- 5.10 Concluding remarks.- 5.11 Exercises.- 6 Architectural Models of Interactive Applications.- 6.1 Architectures for user interfaces.- 6.2 The interactor model.- 6.3 Composition operators for interactors.- 6.4 From the task model to the user interface architecture model.- 6.5 The transformation algorithm.- 6.6 Connecting interactors to support the information flow.- 6.7 An example of application of the transformation.- 6.8 Exercises.- 7 Patterns in Interactive Applications.- 7.1 Introduction.- 7.2Patterns.- 7.3 How to represent a task pattern.- 7.4 An example of a task pattern.- 7.5 Architectural patterns.- 7.6 An example of an architectural pattern.- 7.7 Relationships between tasks and architectural patterns.- 7.8 Tool support for patterns.- 7.9 Comments on patterns.- 7.10 Exercises.- 8 Usability Evaluation.- 8.1 Criteria for user interface evaluation.- 8.2 Introduction to approaches to usability evaluation.- 8.3 Comparing methods for usability evaluation.- 8.4 Remote usability evaluation.- 8.5 The RemUSINE method.- 8.6 Evaluation of RemUSINE.- 8.7 Exercises.- 9 Conclusions.- 9.1 Summarising the results described.- 9.2 Suggestions for open areas of interests.- References.