Formal validation of HCI user tasks

Proceedings of the International Conference on Software Engineering Research and Practise

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 732-738

  Ait Ameur, Yamine ^a   Baron, Mickael ^a   Girard, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

B method; Formal methods; Human Computer Interaction; Interaction properties verification and validation; Proof by refinement; Software architecture; Task modelling and validation

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACTING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONTROL EQUIPMENT; FORMAL LOGIC; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; SPECIFICATIONS;

B METHOD; FORMAL METHODS; INTERACTION PROPERTIES VERIFICATION AND VALIDATION; PROOF BY REFINEMENT; SOFTWARE ARCHITECTURE;

HUMAN COMPUTER INTERACTION;

EID: 1642619102     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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