User Interface Model Research Articles

AMOGA: A Static-Dynamic Model Generation Strategy for Mobile Apps Testing

In the past few years, mobile devices have been increasingly replacing traditional computers as their capabilities such as CPU computation, memory, RAM size, and many more, are being enhanced almost to the level of conventional computers. These capabilities are being exploited by mobile apps developers to produce apps that offer more functionalities and optimized performance. To ensure acceptable quality and to meet their specifications (e.g., design), mobile apps need to be tested thoroughly. As the testing process is often tedious, test automation can be the key to alleviating such laborious activities. In the context of the Android-based mobile apps, researchers and practitioners have proposed many approaches to automate the testing process mainly on the creation of the test suite. Although useful, most existing approaches rely on reverse engineering a model of the application under test for test case creation. Often, such approaches exhibit a lack of comprehensiveness as the application model does not capture the dynamic behavior of the applications extensively due to the incompleteness of reverse engineering approaches. To address this issue, this paper proposes AMOGA, a strategy that uses a hybrid, static-dynamic approach for generating user interface model from mobile apps for model-based testing. AMOGA implements a novel crawling technique that uses the event list of UI element associated with each event to dynamically exercise the events ordering at the run-time to explore the applications' behavior. Results of the experimental assessment showed that AMOGA represents an alternative approach for model-based testing of mobile apps by generating comprehensive models to improve the coverage of the applications.

Building User Interface and Domain Models Based on the Users’ Cognitive Characteristics and Work Process Specifics

The principles of construction and management of the automated systems’ UI (responsible for a form of presenting information to the user) and domain (responsible for a structure of presenting information to the user) models are considered as components of the complex of means for managing user’s informational interaction with the automated system management means, adapting this interaction to the user’s individual characteristics and work process specifics.

User interface modelling by implementing storytelling on Sundanese cultural introduction media for early childhood using child-centered design method

The introduction of local culture to early age children in Indonesia is very necessary to maintain its sustainability. Several institutions of Early Childhood Education began to introduce local culture to their students, but the limited time and place to be a separate constraint for the activity. Digital media can solve this problem by presenting an introduction to local culture which can be accessed without time and place limitation, but there are some problems of using the existing application because children have their own characteristics and different ways of absorbing a knowledge. From the observation of an early childhood, it is known that children more easily absorb knowledge through playing game and listening to the story telling. Story telling invites children to develop their imagination and more memorable, so that information can be better absorbed. To accommodate the learning need, this research developed the User Interface (UI) by combining a game and a story telling. This modelling involves the participation of early childhood and companions using child-centered design (CCD) methods. The UI model then tested using System Usability Scale (SUS) to measure its usability score and obtained 85.833, which means the children feel satisfied in using the UI model.

The Cognitive User Interface Development for Human-computer Interaction Efficiency Increase (Application for Geovisualization)

In this paper the methodological basis and model of cognitive user interface are described. The cognitive user interface is defined as the interface that implements part of human cognitive functions and provides a quick and correct formation of the user concepts based on the generated signals. The main stages of the geoinformation perception process are listed and example of using the cognitive interface for the visualization of geodata is given.

Automated performance measurement for 3D building modeling decisions

Abstract Building information modeling (BIM) is instrumental in documenting design, enhancing customer experience, and improving product functionality in capital projects. However, high-quality building models do not happen by accident, but rather because of a managed process that involves several participants from different disciplines and backgrounds. Throughout this process, the different priorities of design modelers often result in conflicts that can negatively impact project outcomes. To prevent such unwanted outcomes from occurring, the modeling process needs to be effectively managed. This effective management requires an ability to closely monitor the modeling process and correctly measure the modelers' performance. Nevertheless, existing methods of performance monitoring in building design practices lack an objective measurement system to quantify modeling progress. The widespread utilization of BIM tools presents a unique opportunity to retrieve granular design process data and conduct accurate performance measurements. This research improves upon previous efforts by presenting a novel application programming interface (API)-enabled approach to (a) automatically collect detailed model development data directly from BIM software packages in real-time, and (b) efficiently calculate several modeling performance measures during schematic and design development phases of building projects. These indicators can be used to properly arrange modeling teams in the quest for high-quality building models. The specific objectives of this study to examine the feasibility of a proposed automated design performance measurement framework, and to identify optimal modeling team configurations using empirical performance information. A passive data recording approach allows for the real-time capture of comprehensive user interface (UI) interaction and model element modification events. The proposed framework is implemented as an Autodesk Revit plugin. Next, an experiment is conducted to capture data using the developed Revit plugin. Experiment participants' individual production rates are estimated to establish the validity of the proposed approach to identify the optimal design team configuration. The presented approach uses the earliest due date (EDD) sequencing rule in combination with the critical path method (CPM) to calculate the maximum lateness for different design team arrangements.

BlindSense: An Accessibility-inclusive Universal User Interface for Blind People

A large number of blind people use smartphone-based assistive technology to perform their common activities. In order to provide a better user experience the existing user interface paradigm needs to be revisited. A new user interface model has been proposed in this paper. A simplified, semantically consistent, and blind-friendly adaptive user interface is provided. The proposed solution is evaluated through an empirical study on 63 blind people leveraging an improved user experience in performing common activities on a smartphone.

Deriving user interface flow models for artifact-centric business processes

Artifact-centric business process modeling is emerging as a promising paradigm for modeling data-intensive business processes as it provides higher flexibility and extensibility support in comparison to the traditional activity-centric modeling paradigm. Several approaches exist on (semi-) automatically generating user interface (UI) models for activity-centric processes. However, little work has been done on generating UI models for artifact-centric processes. In this paper, we propose a framework for deriving user-interface flow models to help visualize artifact-centric processes and support semi-automatic creation of UIs. The UI model is created by taking into account the relationships among business processes, user interfaces, and user roles in an artifact-centric process model. Algorithms are also developed to derive UI flow models from an artifact-centric process model. We have conducted experiments and implemented a prototype system to prove our concept and evaluate the feasibility and technical performance of our approach.

UEWDM User Interface Design: A Case Study of i-GIMS

Web applications have a different complex features and it raised new issues in design modeling, including user interface design in web application development. The design phase should be able to cope with those user interface modeling issues such as lack of GUI aspects and web designers should provide a clear design view in the web design process. Thus, in this paper, we propose sub-design models in UEWDM user interface design phase by separating it into two sub-designs called Logical Abstract Model and Physical Abstract Model. Our contributions rely on the user interface design structure pattern, which would be able to support the complex processes modeling in GUI aspects. The proposed approach is demonstrated through i-GIMS UPM case-study, a portal for postgraduate student.

Analysis and Implementation of Goal-Directed Design in Reproductive Health Learning Media for High School Student Case Study: Mitra Citra Remaja (MCR)

MCR as a non-governmental organization focused on providing education and other supporting activities related to reproductive health education issues to high school students. However, the efforts that have been done still get less satisfied feedback from students, because they have not been able to deliver thoroughly. This is due to the inadequate facilities used especially for a large number of participants in the school who visited and the number of MCR volunteers are limited so that the extension only covers the city of Bandung. In addition, there is no regular schedule that can be used for extension activities Thus, it takes an internet-based learning media that creates independent learning process and without limitation of space and time. One important aspect of the development of learning media is the usability that is closely related to the user interface. The approach used for designing user interface model is by using goal-directed design method. Begin by identifying user objectives and behaviours and translating into user models of learning media of reproductive health. We have tested usability with QUIM parameters of user interface model generated through goal-directed design implementation, which reaches average usability percentage more than 85%, so it can be said to comply usability element with a very good category.

Designing user interface on monopoly game application for learning fraction in elementary school by using goal directed design method

Learning achievement is a measure of success after following the learning process. While the mathematics learning achievement of 5th grade elementary school students is low, as evidenced by the daily recapitulation data value of students who still score below the Minimum Exhaustiveness Criteria. According to the teacher the cause is the number of students who have not mastered the fraction material as the basis of mathematics material taught in class 5. So that required handling to achieve optimal results. According to research by Elvi Mailani, the Monopoly game used as a fractional math learning tool for elementary school children can have a positive impact by training children to hone their skills. But in this study, the media used less effective because it requires special handling to achieve goals and more optimal results. Based on these problems, a model of user interface for prototype application of fractional math monopoly game for elementary school students was designed. The goal directed design method is used as a design method that focuses on user goals. Based on the result of usability evaluation for the user interface model using QUIM obtained a percentage of 91.56%. So that the user interface model has fulfilled the usability element as a learning fraction media in Elementary school.

Designing an interactive learning application for ADHD children

This research focused on ADHD children with problems such as lack of attention, hyperactive, and impulsive that affect their school academic skills. Educational disturbances found in children with ADHD at Elementary School are low interest in learning, weak memorizing, unenthusiastic with large text and lack of concentration. They have less interest in Social Science Subjects. There are some learning applications developed to help children learn social science. However, there is none focused on ADHD children. Thus, a study was conducted to determine the user interface model of interactive learning application of social science subjects in accordance with user experience in ADHD children by implementing the Children-Centered Design method. Then we analyzed the application usability level measured using USE Questionnaire. The usability testing of the prototype has resulted in average usability of 90.05%, this shows the category of application is very good and can be used for children ADHD.

Comprehensive Understanding of Intelligent User Interfaces

This paper represents basic discussion for one of the latest advances in the technology, known as Intelligent User Interface (IIUI) which is a combination of two major fields of computer science, namely, HCI & Artificial Intelligence. The paper first discusses basic definitions, motivation to this research and UIMS (User Interface Management System) along with example of user interface models to understand user interfaces in detail. The four major classes (with their examples) of these interfaces have been taken as a method for this study. The overall discussion summarizes some basic principles used to create these interfaces, components that are important in the generation of IUIs and decision making process in IUI for the reader to understand working of IIUIs.

Comparing Model, View, and Controller Architecture and Logical User Interface Model

Comparing Model, View, and Controller Architecture and Logical User Interface Model

An Interactive Visual User Interface Model for Multimedia Open Annotation Tools

The W3C Open Annotation Community Group’s Open Annotation (OA) Data Model is emerging as a standardized Web Annotation Data Model. We argue that a friendly interactive visual user interface for OA Data Model based annotation tools, which is largely based on an effective user interface model, plays an essential role in the usability of the tools. In this paper we propose an Interactive Visual User Interface Model for Open Annotations (or simply IVUIM4OA), which allows the annotating user to dynamically transform OA data into a visual representation and to interactively manipulate the visual objects to modify the OA data or produce new one. IVUIM4OA is an adaptation of a generic information visualization model, the Data State Reference Model, for the specifics of the visualization of OA data; it is further extended with view operators that enable the user to interact with the visual objects. We implemented a prototype multimedia annotation tool on the basis of IVUIM4OA and conducted case study experiments with the prototype tool. The implementation and experimental results show that the proposed IVUIM4OA is feasible and works well with the OA Data Model, in such a way that the annotating user can obtain a better understanding of and more intuitive interaction with the annotation data.

Development of Emulation Network Analyzer Tool for Computer Network Planning

This paper describes the development of Emulation Network Analyzer (ENA) for heterogeneous services in campus environment. The purpose of this paper is to inform this ENA able to plan and predict network performance. For this purpose, our ENA development is differ from others system such as application and hardware network analyzer. This study focuses on the design of emulation network analyzer, user interface design, characteristics, model description, implementation and evaluation. This ENA can provide a useful network architectural solutions and optimization of network resources during preparation, proposal and planning phases. Finally, ENA tool is a good emulation analyzer that can be used in small to medium size networks for campus environment purposes with minimum cost.

Performance Prediction of DC Constant Flux Machine Using Optical Character Recognition

Optical character recognition (OCR) is the process of converting the image contains handwritten or printed text into computer readable text. In this paper, OCR implementation in predetermination of DC electrical machines performance have been proposed which helps us to create paper free environment in industries and educational institutes by providing the digital form of information about DC machines performance instead of knowing through printed data sheet or catalog. The MATLAB coding has been developed for recognition and predetermination process of DC Electric machine. The no load parameters of DC machine has been obtained from the name plate details/information brochure/data catalog of the DC machine and same has been verified by conducting the no load test. The required parameters have been written in a preformatted form in a plain white paper. The image of written paper is captured using a digital camera. The characters in the image have been recognized using OCR and recognized no load parameters are used to predetermine the machine performance using Swinburne's test. Graphical user Interface (GUI) model has been developed to make user-friendly.

Dynamic Neuroscientific Systemology: Using Tri�Squared Meta�Analysis and Innovative Instructional Design to Develop a Novel Distance Education Model for the Systemic Creation of Engaging Online Learning Environments

The purpose of this research investigation was to look at the factors that lead to isolation, lack of student inspiration and motivation, lack of student engagement and lack of student retention in the asynchronous online learning environment. The study further delves into how the use of cognitive and neuroscience research can inform the design of an interactive user interface model to address the aforementioned factors. The instrument used in this study was researcher designed “Tri–Squared Test Inventive Investigative Instrument” (Osler, 2012). The data was analyzed using the novel Tri–Squared Meta–Analysis methodology. The results yielded significant differences in the Tri–Squared Meta–Analysis regarding the research literature as it relates to the overall use of cognitive science, neuroscience, and the science of design to increase the overall effectiveness of distance education in terms of course design based upon neuroscientific graphic user interface concepts and principles. This illustrates that there is a clear lack of relevant research regarding the use of cognitive science, neuroscience, and the science of design to truly create effective and engaging distance education.

Design Parser For CDM Graph Geneartion in Graph Transformation Based User Interface Modeling

In the direction of performance analysis form based web application development is reckoned in our work. User interface development part of web application development is further taken into consideration. Navigation aspect is emphasasised; to model navigation class diagram in Unified Modeling Language (UML) to Conceptual Data Model (CDM) mapping is carried through. For achieving transformation, in this study design document is parsed then CDM graph is drawn from parsed design data. Directed CDM graph generation using either critical use case or algorithm is conversed.

The Design of B2B System User Interface for Mobile Systems

Abstract Mobility is playing an ever-increasing role in the life of contemporary business, providing the mobile workforce with a new level of communications freedom. The mobile revolution happening right now affects almost every manager or employee. Business people use mobile devices like smartphones and tablets as complementary services to their computers that are equipped with business applications as a new and productive user interface to their desktop management systems. Users need to access key data wherever they are, enabling them to act on information through simple, easy-to-use authorizations and acknowledgments, and to provide input and updates in real time from remote locations. In this context, the user interface on a mobile device must be easy to use and easily accessible. This is vital for the advanced management B2B systems, which meet the demands of modern business solutions. The main objective of this article is to present the design of B2B system user interface for mobile systems based on technological and technical design recommendations that were developed based on the results of a study made on B2B user interface modelling to work on mobile devices. The study was conducted as part of research and development works for the development of a modern and advanced B2B systems based on Internet technologies.

Incorporating usability requirements into model transformation technologies

Model transformation plays a key role in the model-driven engineering (MDE) approach. In fact, it describes the process of converting one model into another of the same system. Considering a source model, there may be several ways to transform it into target models. Although alternative target models may be equivalent from the functional viewpoint, they may differ in their usability attributes. One of the key challenges for an automated transformation process is to identify which model transformations will produce a target model with the desired usability attributes. The present paper addresses this issue and provides a parameterized transformation to deal with usability driven in an MDE approach. Specifically, it focuses on how to associate usability attributes with the different alternative transformations and how this can be taken into account in an automated transformation process to obtain user interface model with the desired usability attributes.