User Interface Designers Aide

用户界面设计环境UIDE是一个辅助用户界面设计、原型设计、测试和实现的工具。UIDE的核心是用户界面概念设计的知识库表示。定义了一组可应用于知识库A的用户界面设计备选方案。转换后的界面可以通过用户界面管理系统(UIMS)来实现。该系统的功能将从以下几个方面进行开发：(1)扩展知识库的逻辑结构，使其更加有用和强大。(2)结合了更复杂的转换。(3)自动组织菜单和对话框。(4)使用击键模型分析，从使用速度方面对界面设计进行评估。(5)为终端用户提供智能帮助，特别是向终端用户提供“秀出帮助”。(6)支持用户界面设计者对知识库进行交互规范，包括一致性和完整性检查。

The User Interface Design Environment, UIDE, is a tool which assists in user interface design, prototyping, testing, and implementation. The heart of UIDE is a knowledge base representation of the conceptual design of a user interface. A set of user interface design alternatives which can be applied to the knowledge base a have been defined. The transformed interface can be implemented via a User Interface Management System (UIMS). The capabilities of the system will be developed in the following ways: (1) Extend the logical structure of the knowledge base, to make it more useful and powerful. (2) Incorporated more sophisticated transformations. (3) Automatically organize menus and dialogue boxes. (4) Evaluate the interface design with respect to speed of use, using a key- stroke model analysis. (5) Provide intelligent help to the end user, especially "help by showing". (6) Support interactive specification of the knowledge base by the user interface designer, including checks for consistency and completeness.