Development and Testing of an Evaluation Procedure for User Interface Management Systems (UIMS)
Deborah Hix, Kay Chen Tan, Robert S. Schulman · Proceedings of the Human Factors and Ergonomics Society Annual Meeting · 1989
A user interface management system or UIMS is an interactive system for supporting the design, production, and execution of human-computer interfaces. This paper reports on the development and empirical testing of an evaluation procedure to produce quantifiable criteria for evaluating and comparing UIMS. The form-based evaluation procedure results in quantitative ratings along two dimensions: functionality and usability. Specification/implementation techniques used by a UIMS are also quantitatively rated. An empirical study has indicated that the procedure produces reliable, useful results.