USER INTERFACE COMPONENTS LAYOUT PROBLEM WITH A MULTI-CRITERIA APPROACH

Some studies have shown that the techniques and tools of facilities layout problems can equally be applied for the layout design of user interface components in human–computer interface. The facilities layout problem varies from the location and layout of facilities in manufacturing plant to the location and layout of textual and graphical user interface components in the human–computer interface. In this paper, we propose an alternate approach to an existing approach that handles the sum of distance-weighted closeness relationships and distance-weighted interactions assigned relative weights in the objective function. The results of the proposed approach are compared with that of an existing approach.