Gathers the latest research of experts, research teams and leading organisations involved in computer-aided design of user interactive applications supported by software, with specific attention for platform-independent user interfaces and context-sensitive or aware applications
Today, the development life cycle of 3D User Interfaces (UIs) mostly remains an art more than a principled-based approach. Several methods [1,3,7,8,9,10,11,15,17,18,19] have been introduced to decompose this life cycle into steps and sub-steps, but these methods rarely provide the design knowledge that should be typically used for achieving each step. In addition, the development life cycle is more focusing directly on the programming - sues than on the design and analysis phases. This is sometimes reinforced by the fact that available tools for 3D UIs are toolkits, interface builders, r- dering engines, etc. When there is such a development life cycle defined, it is typically structured into the following set of activities: 1. The conceptual phase is characterized by the identification of the content and interaction requests. The meta-author discusses with the interface designer to take advantage of the current interaction technology. The int- face designer receives information about the content. The result of this phase is the production of UI schemes (e. g. , written sentences, visual schemes on paper) for defining classes of interactive experiences (e. g. , class Guided tour). Conceptual schemes are produced both for the final users and the authors. The meta-author has a deep knowledge of the c- tent domain and didactic skills too. He/she communicates with the final user too, in order to focus on didactic aspects of interaction. 2.
Editors and Affiliations
Université Grenoble 1, Grenoble, France
Gaëlle Calvary
National Institute of Research & Development in Informatics, Bucharest, Romania
Costin Pribeanu
Università degli Studi di Roma “La Sapienza”, Roma, Italy
Giuseppe Santucci
Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Jean Vanderdonckt
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces V
Book Subtitle: Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces CADUI '06 (6-8 June 2006, Bucharest, Romania)
Editors: Gaëlle Calvary, Costin Pribeanu, Giuseppe Santucci, Jean Vanderdonckt
