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Implementation Support

Implementation Support. IST 331.1 Spring 2003 Lecture 8. Implementation Support. programming tools levels of services for programmers windowing systems core support for separate and simultaneous user-system activity programming the application and control of dialogue

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Implementation Support

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  1. Implementation Support IST 331.1 Spring 2003 Lecture 8

  2. Implementation Support • programming tools • levels of services for programmers • windowing systems • core support for separate and simultaneous user-system activity • programming the application and control of dialogue • interaction toolkits • bring programming closer to level of user perception • user interface management systems • controls relationship between presentation and functionality

  3. Introduction How does HCI affect the programmer? Advances in coding have elevated programming hardware specific  interaction-technique specific. Layers of development tools • windowing systems • interaction toolkits • user interface management systems

  4. Elements of Windowing Systems Device independence programming the abstract terminal device drivers image models for output and (partially) input • pixels • Graphical Kernel System (GKS) • Programmers' Hierarchical Interface to Graphics (PHIGS) • PostScript Resource sharing achieving simultaneity of user tasks window system supports independent processes isolation of individual applications

  5. The roles of a windowing system

  6. Architectures of Windowing Systems 3 possible software architectures all assume device driver is separate differ in how multiple application management is implemented 1. each application manages all processeseach application worries about synchronizationreduces portability of applications 2. management role within kernel of operating system applications tied to operating system 3. management role as separate applicationmaximum portability client-server architecture

  7. The client-server architecture

  8. The X Window System Architecture Pixel imaging model with some pointing mechanism X protocol defines server-client communication Separate window manager client enforces policies for input/output: •how to change input focus between applications •tiled vs. overlapping windows •inter-client data transfer

  9. Using Toolkits Interaction objects input and output intrinsically linked

  10. User Interface Management Systems UIMS add another level above toolkits toolkits too difficult for non-programmers UIMS as a conceptual architecture separation between application semantics and presentation improves: - portability - reusability - multiple interfaces - customization identifies 3 major roles of interactive system(e.g., Seeheim): presentation component dialogue control application interface model

  11. Seeheim Model of UIMS Lexical Syntactic Semantic Presentation component Dialog control Application Interface model Intended user Intended application (Bypass to allow rapid Semantic feedback)

  12. Implementation of UIMS Techniques for dialogue control • menu networks • state transition diagrams • grammar notations • event languages • declarative languages • constraints • graphical specification The drift of dialogue control internal control (e.g., read-evaluation loop) external control (independent of application semantics or presentation) presentation control (e.g., graphical specification)

  13. Summary Levels of programming support tools: Windowing systems device independence multiple tasks Toolkits programming interaction objects UIMS conceptual architectures for separation techniques for expressing dialogue

  14. NO bold NO italic NO u’line click on ‘underline’ click on ‘italic’ click on ‘bold’ bold italic u’line State Transition Diagram (STD) Compare different interaction objects which could implement this kind of dialog. Use examples from existing toolkits or create a novel interaction object.

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