User interface

About: User interface is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 85402 publications have been published within this topic receiving 1728377 citations. The topic is also known as: UI & input method.

Encapsulating knowledge for intelligent automatic interaction objects selection

Abstract: TRIDENT is a set of interactive tools that automatically generates a user interface for highly-interactive business-oriented applications. It includes an intelligent interaction objects selection based on three different concepts. First, on object oriented typology classifies abstract interaction objects to allow a presentation independent selection. Second, guidelines are translated into automatic rules to select abstract interaction objects from both an application data model and a dialog model. Third, these guidelines are encapsulated in a decision tree technique to make the reasoning obvious to the user. This approach guarantees a target environment independent user interface. Once this specified, abstract interaction objects are mapped into concrete interaction objects to produce the observable interface.

Image Databases: Search and Retrieval of Digital Imagery

Abstract: From the Publisher: The explosive growth of multimedia data transmission has generated a critical need for efficient, high-capacity image databases, as well as powerful search engines to retrieve image data from them. This book brings together contributions by an international all-star team of innovators in the field who share their insights into all key aspects of image database and search engine construction. Readers get in-depth discussions of the entire range of crucial image database architecture, indexing and retrieval, transmission, display, and user interface issues. And, using examples from an array of disciplines, the authors present cutting-edge applications in medical imagery, multimedia communications, earth science, remote sensing, and other major application areas.

Method for providing force feedback to a user of an interface device based on interactions of a controlled cursor with graphical elements in a graphical user interface

Abstract: A method and apparatus for providing force feedback to a user operating a human/computer interface device in conjunction with a graphical user interface (GUI) displayed by a host computer system. A physical object, such as a joystick or a mouse, controls a graphical object, such as a cursor, within the GUI. The GUI allows the user to interface with operating system functions implemented by the computer system. A signal is output from the host computer to the interface device to apply a force sensation to the physical object using one or more actuators. This desired force sensation is associated with at least one of the graphical objects and operating system functions of the graphical user interface and is determined by a location of the cursor in the GUI with respect to targets that are associated with the graphical objects. The graphical objects include icons, windows, pull-down menus and menu items, scroll bars (“sliders”), and buttons. The force sensation assists the user to select a desired operating system function or physically informs the user of the graphical objects encountered by the cursor within the GUI. A microprocessor local to the interface apparatus and separate from the host computer can be used to control forces on the physical object.

International User Interfaces

Abstract: International Usability Engineering (J. Nielsen). Problems in Designing the User Interface for Systems Supporting International Human-Human Communication (J. Connolly). Developing a Cultural Model (N. Hoft). Culture and Design (E. del Galdo). Cultural Learning Differences in Software User Training (E. Krock). Impact of Culture on User Interface Design (M. Ito and K. Nakakoji). Arabization of Graphical User Interfaces (F. Amara and F. Portaneri). A Chinese Text Display Supported by an Algorithm for Chinese Segmentation (L. Chen and W. Jin). Case Study: Managing a Multiple Language Document System (S. Copeland). The Design of Multilingual Documents (E. del Galdo). An Intelligent Lexical Management System for Multilingual Machine Translation (Y. Goa). A Day in the Life: Studying Context Across Cultures (S. Dray and D. Mrazek). Icon and Symbol Design Issues for Graphical User Interfaces (A. Marcus). Index.

Method for dynamically generating a user interface from XML-based documents

Abstract: A method for dynamically generating a graphical user interface (GUI) from XML-based documents. In accordance with the method, visual components or display objects for building a GUI are defined, as well as a layout hierarchy describing layout relationships between the display objects, specifying how related display objects are to be laid out relative to each other on a layout window in the GUI. XML elements in an XML document pertaining to respective display objects are identified. A GUI is generated by rendering the identified display objects on the layout window, wherein the size and the position of each display object is based on layout rules defined by the layout hierarchy and a hierarchical position of the XML element pertaining to the display object within a hierarchy of XML elements of the XML document. The appearance of display objects in the GUI may also be altered through the use layout descriptors.