Interface Development Environment Research Articles

Performance evaluation of cost-optimized thermal cycler.

A polymerase chain reaction is a test method currently used in almost all process steps of a genetic manipulation experiment. It involves the amplification of the given genetic material targeted by the detection test. In consideration of the graphical user interface development environment or user accessibility, if a PC with the windows operating system or its embedded version can be employed as a host, it will contribute significantly to resource saving, including development-related human resources and time, along with enabling a broad use of the product. In this study, we focus on the low cost implementation of a PCR thermal cycler for the personal usage. It is aimed to drastically reduce the product development time and maintenance/repair costs. To achieve this, we implement the functions for biochemical process in a local embedded system, and the functions of data management, including the PCR protocol, and user-interface management are implemented on a PC.

Morphological Image Processing GUI using MATLAB

In this paper, we present an overview of Morphological Image Processing and edge detection using gradient based on different operators in MATLAB and developed its GUI (Graphical User Interface). This paper describes the basic technological aspects of Digital Image Processing with reference to Morphological techniques used in image processing. The word morphology commonly denotes a branch of biology that deals with the form and structure of animals and plants. Morphological processing refers to certain operations where an object is hit with a structuring element and thereby reduced to a more revealing shape . Morphology is related to the shapes and digital morphology is a way to describe and analyze the shape of a digital object in image processing. Morphological image processing GUI deals with the detection of X-Ray images and its edge detection process. The complete image processing is done using MATLAB Graphical User Interface Development Environment (GUIDE).

Knowledge transfer of software tool development for functional requirements analysis

ABSTRACTKnowledge transfer is a key function in software development. Software tool development is an important skills in the software engineering. However, generic teaching courses are hard to evaluate the integrated development skills from undergraduate students. This paper proposed a continuous collaboration model (CCM) and a view‐based semi‐automatic tool, OpenNeeds, develop and run as an Eclipse plug‐in to proceed the functional requirements' analysis. These selected methods and tools include programming languages, markup language, information exchange standards, modeling language, model‐view‐controller (MVC) software framework, virtual machine handling, interface development environment, version control platform, knowledge management, software documentation, and software unit tests. The MVC tool can simply manipulate several requirement‐related graphical components, such as mind view and use case view. The lateral thinking approach is adapted in grid view to assist in analyzing other potential requirements from the original ones. Subsequently, the source codes of this tool are opened and can be distributed via the Eclipse Public License from the OpenFoundry and Github repositories. There are three professors who come from two distinct colleges to share their learning experiences. Meanwhile, 26 and 27 college students attend this team in the first and second year, respectively. Professors can truly understand the fortes of the individual attendee through the attending performance and promote his/her merits in the future tasks. Further, their industrial practices and related outcomes might disclose that the proposed CCM is feasible and trustable in college environment, especially for the software development activities in the software engineering field. © 2015 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. Comput. Appl. Eng. Educ. 24:131–143, 2016; View this article online at wileyonlinelibrary.com/journal/cae; DOI 10.1002/cae.21679

Development of Stand Alone Application Tool for Processing and Quality Measurement of Weld Imperfection Image Captured by μ-Focused Digital Radiography Using MATLAB- Based Graphical User Interface

Digital radiography incresingly is being applied in the fabrication industry. Compared to film- based radiography, digitally radiographed images can be acquired with less time and fewer exposures. However, noises can simply occur on the digital image resulting in a low-quality result. Due to this and the system’s complexity, parameters’ sensitivity, and environmental effects, the results can be difficult to interpret, even for a radiographer. Therefore, the need of an application tool to improve and evaluate the image is becoming urgent. In this research, a user-friendly tool for image processing and image quality measurement was developed. The resulting tool contains important components needed by radiograph inspectors in analyzing defects and recording the results. This tool was written by using image processing and the graphical user interface development environment and compiler (GUIDE) toolbox available in Matrix Laboratory (MATLAB) R2008a. In image processing methods, contrast adjustment, and noise removal, edge detection was applied. In image quality measurement methods, mean square error (MSE), peak signal-to-noise ratio (PSNR), modulation transfer function (MTF), normalized signal-to-noise ratio (SNRnorm), sensitivity and unsharpness were used to measure the image quality. The graphical user interface (GUI) wass then compiled to build a Windows, stand-alone application that enables this tool to be executed independently without the installation of MATLAB.

Building Consensus in Human-Computer Interaction Design: Integrated Activity-Oriented Design Environments

This article proposes and describes activity-oriented design environments (AODEs) as an integrated design platform for building consensus in the context of human-computer interaction (HCI) design activities. Principles and architectural properties of AODEs are illustrated by means of a reference scenario from the domain of accessibility. To this effect, a research prototype of an AODE is presented as a means to validate the proposition made. The research prototype integrates alternative design perspectives (e.g., user modeling, analytical HCI design, argumentation and critiquing) into an extensible design platform of interoperable computational modules to implement a method toward accessibility, which is best suited to specification-oriented user interface development practices. Using the reference scenario, this article describes how the prototype AODE facilitates a seamless bridge between design and development activities through articulating shared representations of design knowledge and compiling recommendations, which can be directly interpreted and applied by a user interface development environment.

Teallach — a flexible user-interface development environment for object database applications

The Teallach project has adapted model-based user-interface development techniques to the systematic creation of user-interfaces for object-oriented database applications. Model-based approaches aim to provide designers with a more principled approach to user-interface development using a variety of underlying models, and tools which manipulate these models. Here we present the results of the Teallach project, describing the tools developed and the flexible design method supported. Distinctive features of the Teallach system include provision of database-specific constructs, comprehensive facilities for relating the different models, and support for a flexible design method in which models can be constructed and related by designers in different orders and in different ways, to suit their particular design rationales. The system then creates the desired user-interface as an independent, fully functional Java application, with automatically generated help facilities.

Teallach: a model-based user interface development environment for object databases

Model-based user interface development environments show promise for improving the productivity of user interface developers, and possibly for improving the quality of developed interfaces. While model-based techniques have previously been applied to the area of database interfaces, they have not been specifically targeted at the important area of object database applications. Such applications make use of models that are semantically richer than their relational counterparts in terms of both data structures and application functionality. In general, model-based techniques have not addressed how the information referenced in such applications is manifested within the described models, and is utilised within the generated interface itself. This lack of experience with such systems has led to many model-based projects providing minimal support for certain features that are essential to such data intensive applications, and has prevented object database interface developers in particular from benefiting from model-based techniques. This paper presents the Teallach model-based user interface development environment for object databases, describing the models it supports, the relationships between these models, the tool used to construct interfaces using the models and the generation of Java programs from the declarative models. Distinctive features of Teallach include comprehensive facilities for linking models, a flexible development method, an open architecture, and the generation of running applications based on the models constructed by designers.

Interactive parallel simulations with the Jane framework

Three important practical issues in fostering the widespread use of parallel simulation technology are the availability of graphical user interfaces, accessibility to parallel computing resources, and facilities for collaborating in the execution of simulations. The availability of sophisticated graphical interface development languages and environments, coupled with the advent of universal accessibility via the Internet, makes it easier to address these issues. As part of our projects in high-performance telecommunication network simulation and in distributed federated simulations, we are developing a simulator-neutral interactive simulation framework called Jane. Jane is intended to help users to remotely and collaboratively interact with parallel simulations over the Internet, and to help them view their own model-specific run-time animations. We document the architectural details of the Jane framework along with the issues and challenges that we faced in designing and implementing interactivity features in the framework, specifically in the context of our optimistic parallel simulator, GTW (Georgia Tech Time Warp), and the telecommunication modeling language, TeD.

Towards a general computational framework for model-based interface development systems

Abstract Model-based interface development systems have not been able to progress beyond producing narrowly focused interface designs of restricted applicability. We identify a level-of-abstraction mismatch in interface models, which we call the mapping problem, as the cause of the limitations in the usefulness of model-based systems. We propose a general computational framework for solving the mapping problem in model-based systems. We show an implementation of the framework within the MOBI-D (Model-Based Interface Designer) interface development environment. The MOBI-D approach to solving the mapping problem enables for the first time with model-based technology the design of a wide variety of types of user interfaces.

The Amulet environment: new models for effective user interface software development

The Amulet user interface development environment makes it easier for programmers to create highly interactive, graphical user interface software for Unix, Windows and the Macintosh. Amulet uses new models for objects, constraints, animation, input, output, commands, and undo. The object system is a prototype instance model in which there is no distinction between classes and instances or between methods and data. The constraint system allows any value of any object to be computed by arbitrary code and supports multiple constraint solvers. Animations can be attached to existing objects with a single line of code. Input from the user is handled by "interactor" objects which support reuse of behavior objects. The output model provides a declarative definition of the graphics and supports automatic refresh. Command objects encapsulate all of the information needed about operations, including support for various ways to undo them. A key feature of the Amulet design is that all graphical objects and behaviors of those objects are explicitly represented at run time, so the system can provide a number of high level built-in functions, including automatic display and editing of objects, and external analysis and control of interfaces. Amulet integrates these capabilities in a flexible and effective manner.

A model-based interface development environment

The author describes Mobi-D (Model-Based Interface Designer), a comprehensive environment that supports user-centered design through model-based interface development. In the Mobi-D paradigm, a series of declarative models, such as user-task, dialog, and presentation, are interrelated to provide a formal representation of an interface design. This contrasts to model-based systems, which use only one or two models in isolation and have no explicit notion as to how the various model elements are organized into an interface design.

Requirements for graphical user interface development environments for groupware

Most user interface designers are conversant with graphical user interface (GUI) tools such as Motif 1 1 Motif is a trademark of Open Software Foundation Inc. and Presentation Manager 2 2 Presentation Manager is a trademark of IBM. which provide ‘widgets’ and other facilities for building user interfaces. Such GUI tools were developed primarily for building interfaces to single-user systems. The purpose of the paper is to present the result of research into the requirements for GUI tools for multi-user systems. Many of the requirements of single and multi-user GUIs are the same, for example, usability and flexibility. A number of new widgets are needed for multi-user GUIs, for example, shared scroll-bars and multi-user telepointers. The requirements are divided into three groups based on three sources of requirements: literature, user survey and widgets.

Amulet user interface development environment

article Free Access Share on Amulet user interface development environment Author: Chris Law Ergonomics U/G, Department of Human Sciences, Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, England Ergonomics U/G, Department of Human Sciences, Loughborough University of Technology, Loughborough, Leicestershire, LE11 3TU, EnglandView Profile Authors Info & Claims InteractionsVolume 3Issue 1Jan. 1996 pp 11–13https://doi.org/10.1145/223500.227598Published:02 January 1996Publication History 0citation204DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Downloads204Last 12 Months5Last 6 weeks0 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

Visualizing advanced data modelling constructs

Semantic data modelling constructs, such as relationships, composite objects and versions, are used to represent knowledge explicitly in object-oriented databases. Such constructs increase the ability of the database to capture not only the structural aspects of data, as in traditional databases, but also the meaning of data. The modelling process can be further enhanced by supporting expressive visual representations of the constructs in a direct-manipulation interface. This paper focuses upon the development of effective visualizations for such constructs by presenting a range of sample visualizations, outlining how they can be prototyped rapidly in an integrated interface development environment, and describing how evaluation techniques can be used to assess alternative proposals.

TAE Plus: Transportable Applications Environment Plus

The Transportable Applications Environment Plus (TAE Plus) is a NASA-developed user interface development environment (UIDE) for the rapid prototyping, evaluation, implementation, and management of user interfaces. TAE Plus provides an intuitive What You See Is What You Get (WYSIWYG) WorkBench for designing an application's user interface. The WorkBench supports the creation and sequencing of displays, including real-time, data-driven display objects. Users can define context-sensitive help for a target application. They can rehearse the user interface and also generate code automatically. In addition TAE Plus contains application services for the runtime manipulation and management of the user interface. Based on Motif and the MIT X Window System, TAE Plus runs on a variety of Unix- or VMS-based workstations. TAE Plus is an evolving system. User-defined requirements and new technology guide the development of each new version. Advances in virtual operating systems, human factors, computer graphics, command language design, standardization, and software portability are monitored and incorporated as they become available.

Demonstrational interfaces: A step beyond direct manipulation

Demonstrational interfaces, interfaces that let the user perform actions on concrete example objects while constructing an abstract program, thus letting the user create parameterized procedures and objects without learning a programming language, are discussed. The motivations for and problems associated with demonstrational interfaces are presented. A survey of the various types of interfaces is also presented. Areas that would benefit from demonstrational technology, including general-purpose programming, visualization, macros for direct-manipulation interfaces, drawing packages, text editing and formatting, and user interface development environments, are discussed. Research issues involving demonstrational interfaces are reviewed.< <ETX xmlns:mml="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink">&gt;</ETX>

Survey of public access information retrieval systems : Displays Technol and Applications, 1990, 11.4, 193–200, 0 refs.

Abstract A London HCI Centre (LHC) project to produce a user interface development environment for screen-based, nondirect manipulation, public use computer systems is described. A survey of available public access computer systems was undertaken to characterize and critically assess the usability of current designs. That part of the survey relating to four particular information retrieval systems is presented. Some serious weaknesses in the user interfaces to these systems are highlighted along with recommendations for improvements. The paper concludes with a general discussion of the major areas of weakness and how human factors guidelines can be used to improve usability.

Developing a GUIDE using object-oriented programming

PICASSO is a graphical user interface development environment built using the Common Lisp Object System (CLOS). This paper describes how CLOS features including multiple inheritance, instance methods, multimethods, and method combinations were used to implement the system. In addition, the benefits and drawbacks of CLOS development are discussed including code quality, maintainability and performance.

Adaptive Interfaces for Robots

The synergy of man and robots will be greatly bonded by improving the communication capabilities between them. The user friendliness of control systems will be a critical factor for both industrial and domestic robots. Robot controls should be adaptable to a variety of application requirements. The satisfaction of individual preferences of operators will ensure short training periods and guarantee fearless supervision of the machines. User interface development environments and research on self-adaptive interfaces are reviewed.

Human-computer interface development tools

A comprehensive checklist-based methodology produces quantifiable criteria for evaluating and comparing human-computer interface development tools along two dimensions: functionality and usability. An empirical evaluation shows that the methodology which is in use in several corporate interface development environments, produces reliable (consistent) results