A Graphical User Interface Design Environment

Adv,Ulces in computer hardware and interface technologies have led to a corresponding increase in research into highly interactive Human-Computer Interfaces. Development tools that create these interfaces need to be tlexible, general ,Uld produce easily modifiable objects. They also should convey important graphic design principles to the application designer. Existing design tools largely neglect integrating the initial selection of representation with the development of the presentation. The Automatic Graphical Analog Presentation Environment has been designed to produce highly interactive analogical interfaces. A representation is constructively generated from a catalog of primitives ,Uld the dynrunics of the interface are matched to a fonnalized description of the user's task. The resulting composite is then evaluated for its cognitive effectiveness ,md efficiency. Several t更多