Abstract Task Definition and Incremental Polymorphic Physical Instantiation: The Unified Interface Design Method
Anthony Savidis, Constantine Stephanidis, Pier Luigi Emiliani · International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction · 1997
In the context of the User Interface design process, diverse user requirements are likely to dictate differentiated design decisions. When developing user-adapted interfaces, which are capable of personalizing to end-user attributes, it is required to identify all the necessary alternative design artifacts emerging from diverse user requirements, and organize them in a form more usable for the implementation process. Currently, design methodologies do not provide adequate support for structuring alternative design decisions for user-adapted interaction in a unified form, thus not supporting a concise architectural model for mapping the design outcomes to an implemented user-adapted interface. We have developed the unified design method for driving the design process of user-adapted interfaces. The unified design method, which produces a fusion of all alternative designs (in a single form), is based on task definition and incremental physical polymorphic specialization (the polymorphism criterion being the user attribute values). We have implemented a target architectural model for mapping the design outcomes of the unified design process to implemented interactive systems.