Title

A Natural, Tiered and Executable UIDL for 3D User Interfaces Based on Concept-Oriented Design

Authors

Authors

C. A. Wingrave; J. J. Laviola;D. A. Bowman

Abbreviated Journal Title

ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

Keywords

UIDL; 3DUI; concept-oriented design; interaction techniques; natural; programming; non-WIMP interfaces; Chasm; UIMS; PROGRAMMING-LANGUAGES; VIRTUAL-REALITY; ENVIRONMENTS; FRAMEWORK; VR; Computer Science, Cybernetics; Computer Science, Information Systems

Abstract

3D User Interface (3DUI) design and development requires practitioners (designers and developers) to represent their ideas in representations designed for machine execution rather than natural representations, hampering development of effective 3DUIs. As such, Concept-Oriented Design (COD) was created as a theory of software development for both natural and executable design and development. Instantiated in the toolkit Chasm, Chasm is a natural, tiered, executable User Interface Description Language (UIDL) for 3DUIs resulting in improved understandability, as well as reduced complexity and reuse. Chasm's utility is shown through evaluations by domain experts, case studies of long-term use, and an analysis of spaces.

Journal Title

Acm Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volume

16

Issue/Number

4

Publication Date

1-1-2009

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

36

WOS Identifier

WOS:000272721600006

ISSN

1073-0516

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