Using Domain-Specific Modeling to Generate User Interfaces for Wizards

MoDELS'07 Workshop on Model Driven Development of Advanced User Interfaces

Enis Afgan ; Jeff Gray ; Purushotham Bangalore

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来源: CEUR

【 摘 要 】

The rising adoption and incorporation of computers into everyday life requires human-computer interaction methods to be efficient and easy to understand. Simultaneously, complexities of underlying computer systems are increasing, inherently requiring deeper understanding and a detailed level of human-computerinteraction methods. Software wizards are one important examplefrom the category of tools that simplify this interaction. Through asimple, domain-specific, and targeted set of guided questions,wizards allow complex tasks to be completed quickly and simply. Tasks accomplished by wizards range from simple information collection to complex system configuration. Because wizards are task-specific, their lifespan is short and thus must be easily and quickly adapted such that the cost associated with wizard maintenance is minimized. This paper outlines such wizard requirements and provides a metamodeling approach to wizard generation. A domain-specific modeling language is presented,which has been shown to be helpful in the generation of domain- specific wizards that are capable of adapting to changing requirements.