An automated layout approach for model-driven WIMP-UI generation

EICS'12 - Proceedings of the 2012 ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 91-100

  Raneburger, David ^a   Popp, Roman ^a   Vanderdonckt, Jean ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^b LOUVAIN SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Automated layout; Model driven; WIMP UI generation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATED LAYOUT; AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; GENERATION PROCESS; GENERIC SOLUTIONS; HIGH QUALITY; HUMAN INTERVENTION; MODEL-DRIVEN; NON-FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS; POINTING DEVICES; REUSABLE TRANSFORMATIONS; WIMP-UI GENERATION;

COMPUTER SYSTEMS; USER INTERFACES;

AUTOMATION;

EID: 84864069211     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2305484.2305501     Document Type: Conference Paper

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