Engineering Human Computer Interaction and Interactive Systems

1. Front Matter

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2. Usability

   1. Bringing Usability Concerns to the Design of Software Architecture

      • Bonnie E. John, Len Bass, Maria-Isabel Sanchez-Segura, Rob J. Adams

      Pages 1-19

   2. Empirical Usability Testing in a Component-Based Environment: Improving Test Efficiency with Component-Specific Usability Measures

      • Willem-Paul Brinkman, Reinder Haakma, Don G. Bouwhuis

      Pages 20-37

   3. Software Architecture Analysis of Usability

      • Eelke Folmer, Jilles van Gurp, Jan Bosch

      Pages 38-58

3. Task Modelling

   1. Support for Task Modeling – A ”Constructive” Exploration

      • Anke Dittmar, Peter Forbrig, Simone Heftberger, Chris Stary

      Pages 59-76

   2. DynaMo-AID: A Design Process and a Runtime Architecture for Dynamic Model-Based User Interface Development

      • Tim Clerckx, Kris Luyten, Karin Coninx

      Pages 77-95

   3. Using Task Modelling Concepts for Achieving Adaptive Workflows

      • Carsten Eichholz, Anke Dittmar, Peter Forbrig

      Pages 96-111

4. Browsing and Searching

   1. Mixing Research Methods in HCI: Ethnography Meets Experimentation in Image Browser Design

      • T. C. Ormerod, J. Mariani, N. J. Morley, T. Rodden, A. Crabtree, J. Mathrick et al.

      Pages 112-128

   2. ”Tell Me a Story” Issues on the Design of Document Retrieval Systems

      • Daniel Gonçalves, Joaquim Jorge

      Pages 129-145

5. Model-Based Approaches

   1. CanonSketch: A User-Centered Tool for Canonical Abstract Prototyping

      • Pedro F. Campos, Nuno J. Nunes

      Pages 146-163

   2. Finding Iteration Patterns in Dynamic Web Page Authoring

      • José A. Macías, Pablo Castells

      Pages 164-178

   3. Very-High-Fidelity Prototyping for Both Presentation and Dialogue Parts of Multimodal Interactive Systems

      • David Navarre, Pierre Dragicevic, Philippe Palanque, Rémi Bastide, Amélie Schyn

      Pages 179-199

   4. USIXML: A Language Supporting Multi-path Development of User Interfaces

      • Quentin Limbourg, Jean Vanderdonckt, Benjamin Michotte, Laurent Bouillon, Víctor López-Jaquero

      Pages 200-220

   5. A Novel Dialog Model for the Design of Multimodal User Interfaces

      • Robbie Schaefer, Steffen Bleul, Wolfgang Mueller

      Pages 221-223

   6. Navigation Patterns – Pattern Systems Based on Structural Mappings

      • Jürgen Ziegler, Markus Specker

      Pages 224-227

6. Ubiquitous Computing

   1. Spatial Control of Interactive Surfaces in an Augmented Environment

      • Stanislaw Borkowski, Julien Letessier, James L. Crowley

      Pages 228-244

   2. Manipulating Vibro-Tactile Sequences on Mobile PC

      • Grigori Evreinov, Tatiana Evreinova, Roope Raisamo

      Pages 245-252

7. Bridging Viewpoints

   1. Formalising an Understanding of User-System Misfits

      • Ann Blandford, Thomas R. G. Green, Iain Connell

      Pages 253-270

   2. Supporting a Shared Understanding of Communication-Oriented Concerns in Human-Computer Interaction: A Lexicon-Based Approach

      • Simone Diniz Junqueira Barbosa, Milene Selbach Silveira, Maíra Greco de Paula, Karin Koogan Breitman

      Pages 271-288

   3. A Seamless Development Process of Adaptive User Interfaces Explicitly Based on Usability Properties

      • Víctor López-Jaquero, Francisco Montero, José P. Molina, P. González, A. Fernández-Caballero

      Pages 289-291

As its name suggests, the EHCI-DSVIS conference has been a special event, merging two different, although overlapping, research communities: EHCI (Engineering for Human-Computer Interaction) is a conference organized by the IFIP 2.7/13.4 working group, started in 1974 and held every three years since 1989. The group’s activity is the scientific investigation of the relationships among the human factors in computing and software engineering. DSVIS (Design, Specification and Verification of Interactive Systems) is an annual conference started in 1994, and dedicated to the use of formal methods for the design of interactive systems. Of course these two research domains have a lot in common, and are informed by each other’s results. The year 2004 was a good opportunity to bring closer these two research communities for an event, the 11th edition of DSVIS and the 9th edition of EHCI. EHCI-DSVIS was set up as a working conference bringing together researchers and practitioners interested in strengthening the scientific foundations of user interface design, specification and verification, and in examining the relationships between software engineering and human-computer interaction. The call for papers attracted a lot of attention, and we received a record number of submissions: out of the 65 submissions, 23 full papers were accepted, which gives an acceptance rate of approximately 34%. Three short papers were also included. The contributions were categorized in 8 chapters: Chapter 1 (Usability and Software Architecture) contains three contributions which advance the state of the art in usability approaches for modern software engineering.

• HCI
• Ubiquitous Computing
• adaptive interfaces
• architecture
• formal methods
• groupware
• human computer interaction
• intelligent interfaces
• mobile computing
• modeling
• multimodal interfaces
• user interface evaluation
• user interfaces
• user simulation
• user-centered design

• IRIT, University of Toulouse, Toulouse Cedex 9, France

  Rémi Bastide

• Institute of Research in Informatics of Toulouse (IRIT), University Paul Sabatier, Toulouse Cedex 9, France

  Philippe Palanque

• Univ. of Applied Sciences Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany

  Jörg Roth

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