Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems '97: Proceedings of the Eurographics Workshop in Granada, Spain, June 4-6, 1997

by Michael D. Harrison (Editor), Juan C. Torres (Editor)

Overview

An increasing recognition of the role of the human-system interface is leading to new extensions and styles of specification. Techniques are being developed that facilitate the expression of user-oriented requirements and the refinement and checking of specifications of interactive systems. This book reflects the state of the art in this important area and also contains a summary of working group discussions about how the various techniques represented might be applied to a common case study.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783211830550
Publisher:	Springer Vienna
Publication date:	11/17/1997
Series:	Eurographics
Edition description:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1997
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	6.69(w) x 9.61(h) x 0.03(d)

Table of Contents

Do interactive systems need specifications?.- PAC-ing the architecture of your user interface.- DMVIS: Design, modelling and validation of interactive systems.- Users as rational interacting agents: Formalising assumptions about cognition and interaction.- Establishing a link between usability and utility: Validation of task-based dialogue using a semantic prototype.- Evaluating narrative in multimedia.- Interactors and Haggis: Executable specifications for interactive systems.- Formally verifying interactive systems: A review.- Investigating the behaviour of PREMO synchronizable objects.- Formal transducers: Models of devices and building bricks for the design of highly interactive systems.- From text to Petri nets: The difficulties of describing accident scenarios formally.- Unifying toolkit programming layers: A multi-purpose toolkit integration module.- Editing MAD* task descriptions for specifying user interfaces, at both semantic and presentation levels.- Formal aspects of task based design.- Reusable structures in task models.- The interaction specification workspace: Specifying and designing the interaction issues of virtual reality training environments from within.- The notion of trajectory in graphical user interfaces.- A representational approach to the specification of presentations.- On biasing behaviour to the optimal.- Modelling in Action. Reports from the DSVIS’97 working groups.