The BOSS-System: Coupling Visual Programming with Model Based Interface Design

Due to the limitations of WYSIWYG User Interface Builders and User Interface Management Systems model based user interface construction tools gain rising research interest. The paper describes the BOSS system, a model based tool which employs an encompassing specification model (HIT, Hierarchic Interaction graph Templates) for setting up all parts of the model of an interactive application (application interface, user interaction task space, presentation design rules) in a declarative, designer oriented manner. BOSS offers an integrated development environment in which specifications are elaborated in a graphical, visual-programming-like fashion. Through a refinement component a specification can be transformed according to high-level design goals. From a refined specification BOSS generates automatically user interfaces using modified techniques from compiler construction.

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