Programming Research Group
Technical Report TR-5-89
User interface languages: a survey of existing methods
Gregory Abowd,
Jonathan Bowen,
Alan Dix, Michael Harrison and Roger Took
October 1989, 65pp.
This report gives a survey of user interface languages and formal
representations of user interfaces. The following aspects of User
Interface Languages are considered:
- expressiveness
- readability
- evaluation (is it possible to evaluate the ergonomic and
functional quality of the user interface from the representation)
- manipulation
- compilation/interpretation
- possibility to include knowledge representation.
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