Formal Methods in Human-Computer Interaction

1. Front Matter

   Pages iii-xvii

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2. Modelling Techniques

   1. Specifying History and Backtracking Mechanisms

      • Philippe Palanque, Fabio Paternò

      Pages 1-23

   2. How to Model a Web (Without Getting Tangled in Nets)

      • Philippe Palanque, Fabio Paternò

      Pages 25-47

   3. Software Architecture Modelling: Bridging Two Worlds Using Ergonomics and Software Properties

      • Philippe Palanque, Fabio Paternò

      Pages 49-73

   4. A Formal Approach to Consistency and Reuse of Links in World Wide Web Applications

      • Philippe Palanque, Fabio Paternò

      Pages 75-92

   5. Using Declarative Descriptions to Model User Interfaces with MASTERMIND

      • Philippe Palanque, Fabio Paternò

      Pages 93-120

3. Approaches to the Formal Specification

   1. XTL: A Temporal Logic for the Formal Development of Interactive Systems

      • Philippe Palanque, Fabio Paternò

      Pages 121-139

   2. Interaction Object Graphs: An Executable Graphical Notation for Specifying User Interfaces

      • Philippe Palanque, Fabio Paternò

      Pages 141-155

   3. Specifying a Web Browser Interface Using Object-Z

      • Philippe Palanque, Fabio Paternò

      Pages 157-174

   4. Modelling Clients and Servers on the Web Using Interactive Cooperative Objects

      • Philippe Palanque, Fabio Paternò

      Pages 175-194

   5. Development of a WWW Browser Using TADEUS

      • Philippe Palanque, Fabio Paternò

      Pages 195-223

   6. Algebraic Specification of a World Wide Web Application Using GRALPLA

      • Philippe Palanque, Fabio Paternò

      Pages 225-240

4. Approaches to the Formal Evaluation

   1. TLIM: A Systematic Method for the Design of Interactive Systems

      • Philippe Palanque, Fabio Paternò

      Pages 241-259

   2. Electronic Gridlock, Information Saturation and the Unpredictability of Information Retrieval over the World Wide Web

      • Philippe Palanque, Fabio Paternò

      Pages 261-282

   3. From Formal Models to Empirical Evaluation and Back Again

      • Philippe Palanque, Fabio Paternò

      Pages 283-313

   4. A Component-Based Approach Applied to a Netscape-Like Browser

      • Philippe Palanque, Fabio Paternò

      Pages 315-346

5. Back Matter

   Pages 347-376

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Formal methods have already been shown to improve the development process and quality assurance in system design and implementation. This volume examines whether these benefits also apply to the field of human-computer interface design and implementation, and whether formal methods can offer useful support in usability evaluation and obtaining more reliable implementations of user requirements. Its main aim is to compare the different approaches and examine which particular type of implementation and problem each one is best suited to. To enable the reader to compare and contrast the approaches as easily as possible, each one is applied to the same case study: the specification of an ideal Netscape-like web browser and html page server. The resulting volume will provide invaluable reading for final year undergraduate and postgraduate courses on user interfaces, user interface design, and applications of formal methods.

• Usability
• User Interface Design
• formal specification
• human-computer interaction (HCI)
• interactive system
• logic
• user interface

• LIS-FROGIS, University of Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex, France

  Philippe Palanque

• CNUCE-CNR, Pisa, Italy

  Fabio Paternò

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