User Interface Management Systems

1. Front Matter

   Pages I-XII

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2. Subgroup Reports

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1

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   2. Report on Role, Model, Structure and Construction of a UIMS

      • H. J. Strubbe

      Pages 3-8

   3. Report on Dialogue Specification Tools

      • M. Green

      Pages 9-20

   4. Report on the Interface of the UIMS to the Application

      • G. Enderle

      Pages 21-29

   5. Report on the User’s Conceptual Model

      • M. Mac an Airchinnigh

      Pages 31-40

3. Role, Model, Structure and Construction of a UIMS

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 41-41

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   2. Issues Pertaining to the Design of a User Interface Management System

      • A. Kamran

      Pages 43-48

   3. Components of Interactive Applications

      • H. J. Strubbe

      Pages 49-57

   4. Communication Mediator — A Structure for UIMS

      • T. Takala

      Pages 59-66

   5. Some Issues in Future User Interface Management System (UIMS) Development

      • P. P. Tanner, W. A. S. Buxton

      Pages 67-79

   6. Architecture for A User Interface Management System

      • J. J. Thomas

      Pages 81-85

4. Dialogue Specification Tools

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 87-87

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   2. Design Notations and User Interface Management Systems

      • M. Green

      Pages 89-107

   3. Parallel Input and Feedback in Dialogue Cells

      • P. J. W. ten Hagen, J. Derksen

      Pages 109-124

   4. Presentational, Syntactic and Semantic Components of Interactive Dialogue Specifications

      • D. R. Olsen Jr.

      Pages 125-133

5. Interfaces and Implementations of UIMS

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 135-135

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   2. UIMS as Part of a CAD System

      • P. David, S. Lafont, P. Uvietta

      Pages 137-153

   3. The Unification of a Dialogue Manager and a Graphics System

      • E. Edmonds, S. Guest

      Pages 155-159

   4. The Flexible Configuration of Interaction Environments using GKS and Workspaces

      • G. Enderle

      Pages 161-169

The book contains the proceedings and reports of the "Workshop on User Interface Management Systems", held in Seeheim, Federal Re­ public of Germany, November 1-3, 1983. The workshop brought toge­ ther experts in using and developing techniques for managing the dialo­ gue between users and interactive graphics systems. The purpose of the workshop was to produce an agreed report contrasting existing ap­ proaches, and outlining directions for future work. Four different areas were defined and addressed at the workshop, namely a) role, model, structure and construction of a UIMS b) dialogue specification tools c) interface of the UIMS to the application d) user's conceptual model All participants prepared papers each in one ofthose problem areas. The papers have been rewritten in the light of the issues discussed during the workshop. Also a subgroup report was produced for each problem area summarizing the results of the discussions at the workshop. Preface User Interface Management Systems (UlMS) are the mediators between the user and the application programs. As more and more in­ teractive programs become widely available,methods and techniques of designing and implementing acceptable user interfaces have to be inves­ tigated. Since many years, research on the design of user interface mana­ gement systems is going on. This EUROGRAPHICS Workshop follows from the ACM SIGGRAPH Workshop on Graphical Input and Interac­ tion Techniques of May, 1982 in Seattle (see: Computer Graphics 17(1), 1983), and the IFIP WG 5.

• Design
• Interface
• Management
• Management /Bericht
• Management Systems
• Systems
• User Interfaces
• computer graphics
• construction
• model
• user interface

• GTS/GRAL, Darmstadt, Germany

  Günther E. Pfaff

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