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Conceptual Modeling for User Interface Development

Conceptual Modeling for User Interface Development introduces the technique of Entity-Relationship-Modeling and shows how the technique can be applied to interface issues. It explains those aspects of entity-relationship modeling which are relevant to ERMIAs, and it presents the extensions to the no...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Benyon, David, Green, Thomas (Author), Bental, Diana (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London Springer London 1999, 1999
Edition:1st ed. 1999
Series:Practitioner Series
Subjects:
User Interfaces (computer Systems)
Software Engineering
User Interfaces And Human Computer Interaction
Human-computer Interaction
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Collection: Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa
Table of Contents:
  • 9.4 Case Study: The Oven Hob Problem
  • 9.5 Building the ERMIA
  • 10. Practical ERMIA Modeling
  • 10.1 The Appointments Diary
  • 10.2 The Alarm Clock
  • 10.3 The ATM
  • 11. Case Study
  • 11.1 The Domain
  • 11.2 Conceptual ERMIA of XBarnacle
  • 11.3 A Perceptual ERMIA of the XBarnacle Interface
  • 11.4 Using ERMIA to Identify Potential Usability Problems
  • 11.5 Did the problems materialize?
  • 11.6 Introducing critics: XBarnacle
  • 12. Conclusions
  • 12.1 ERMIA and Other Techniques
  • 12.2 Choosing a Modeling Method
  • 12.3 Usability Issues
  • 12.4 Future Developments
  • Solutions to Exercises
  • Summary of Notation
  • Resources
  • 1. Modeling in User Interface Development
  • 1.1 User Interface Development
  • 1.2 Principles of Design
  • 1.3 Models in Design
  • 1.4 User Interface Development: The Functional View
  • 1.5 Models of Dynamics
  • 1.6 Models of Structure
  • 1.7 The Role of ERMIA in User Interface Development
  • 2. An Introduction to ERMIA
  • 2.1 Evaluating Designs and Devices
  • 2.2 ERMIA in a Nutshell
  • 2.3 Information Artefacts
  • 2.4 The Uses of ERMIA
  • 3. The Components of an ERMIA Model
  • 3.1 The Components
  • 3.2 Entity
  • 3.3 Relationship
  • 3.4 Attribute
  • 3.5 Entity, Relationship or Attribute?
  • 3.6 Example: A Database of Papers Submitted to a Conference
  • 3.7 Example: Telephone Network
  • 4. Conceptual and Perceptual ERMIAs
  • 4.1 The Information to Be Displayed versus the Display Itself
  • 4.2 Manifest and Conceptual Entities and Relationships
  • 4.3 Perceptually-coded Attributes
  • 4.4 Example: A List Viewport
  • 4.5 Distributed Conceptual Information
  • 4.6 Comparing Different User Views
  • 5. Searching for Information
  • 5.1 Information Can Be Hard to Find
  • 5.2 The Five Types of Entity Store
  • 5.3 Example: The List of Flowers Revisited
  • 5.4 Searching More Complex Structures
  • 6. Dealing with Complex Relationships
  • 6.1 Decomposing Many-to-Many Relationships
  • 6.2 Different Manifest Structures Lead to Different Search
  • 6.3 Making Many-to-Many Relationships Easy to Explore
  • 6.4 Example: A Drum Machine Pattern Sequencer
  • 6.5 Fossil Silt
  • 7. Standard Structures and Safe Paths
  • 7.1 Standard Structures for Search
  • 7.2 Safe Trails
  • 7.3 Connection Traps
  • 7.4 Short Cut Keys
  • 8. Representing Different Views
  • 8.1 Levels of Information Artefacts
  • 8.2 Example: Currency Exchange
  • 8.3 Different Views Facilitate Different Tasks
  • 8.4 Representing Mental Models
  • 9. Developing ERMIAs
  • 9.1 ERMIA as aLanguage for Design
  • 9.2 Heuristics for ERMIA
  • 9.3 Methodology for ERMIA

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