A simulation-driven approach to user interface specification based on a muliscale visual workspace for supporting collabrative creativity

基于多尺度视觉工作空间的模拟驱动的用户界面规范方法，用于支持协作创造力

• 批准号: 134144091
• 负责人: Professor Dr. Harald Reiterer
• 金额: --
• 依托单位: Arbeitsgruppe Mensch-Computer-Interaktion
• 依托单位国家: 德国
• 项目类别: Research Grants
• 财政年份: 2009
• 资助国家: 德国
• 起止时间: 2008-12-31 至 2013-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://gepris.dfg.de/gepris/projekt/134144091?language=en
• 关键词: simulation; driven; approach; user; interface

User Interfaces (UIs) are a success-critical factor in corporate software development. Due to rising demands on corporate design and user experience, industrial practice seeks to increase the application of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) methods and techniques. Additionally, a shift from objectcentered to experience-centered UIs and a revolution in paradigms require increased focus on innovation in design. However, current UI specification practice lacks adequate integration of HCI methods and design techniques within interdisciplinary teams. Due to the tight coupling of HCI with Software Engineering (SE) in industrial practice, formal approaches are well established. While these are still of crucial interest in HCI research, they do not scale well to the demands on “experiencecentered” UIs. As innovative UI design is an inherently interdisciplinary process it is harmed by a lack of common understanding due to discipline-specific notations and languages. Based on our findings from observing industrial practice, we discovered a critical gap in communication between actors, which is based on fundamental differences in design thinking and engineering philosophies. A lack of support for explorative UI design approaches that are characterized by informal expressions and openended processes prevent non-technical stakeholders from participating in the design process. Within preliminary research, we were able to establish an agile method for interdisciplinary UI specification as an alternative to formal approaches. It combines interactive UI specification techniques with a spatial workspace that actively supports interdisciplinary actors within informal to formal UI specification tasks. Based on our findings from empirical studies we propose further research towards a combination of methods for explorative simulation of interactive systems and explicit creativity support as well as assistance for interdisciplinary collaboration. We are confident that a visual multiscale workspace for the simulation of UI concepts in interdisciplinary settings contributes to more innovation in UI design practice. With a common language in design and an accessible medium for collaborative requirements modeling combined with innovative visualization concepts, we will narrow the gaps between disciplines and will bridge work transitions to make the overall process of UI specification more fluid and tangible. In order to pursue our research goals, we will investigate theoretical methods and techniques within the domains of simulation, creativity support, interdisciplinary collaboration and information visualization to develop solutions that incorporate elaborated principles. Eventually, we will evaluate our measures based on case studies within lecture projects and in cooperation with our industrial partners.

用户界面（UI）是企业软件开发成功的关键因素。由于对企业设计和用户体验的需求不断上升，工业实践寻求增加人机交互（HCI）方法和技术的应用。此外，从以对象为中心到以体验为中心的UI的转变以及范式的革命需要更多地关注设计创新。然而，当前的UI规范实践缺乏跨学科团队中HCI方法和设计技术的充分整合。由于HCI与软件工程（SE）在工业实践中的紧密耦合，形式化方法已经建立。虽然这些仍然是人机交互研究的关键兴趣，但它们不能很好地扩展到“以体验为中心”的UI的需求。由于创新的UI设计本质上是一个跨学科的过程，由于特定学科的符号和语言缺乏共同的理解，它受到了损害。根据我们观察工业实践的发现，我们发现参与者之间的沟通存在严重差距，这是基于设计思维和工程哲学的根本差异。缺乏对以非正式表达和开放式流程为特征的探索性UI设计方法的支持，会阻止非技术利益相关者参与设计过程。在初步的研究中，我们能够建立一个跨学科的UI规范的敏捷方法作为正式方法的替代。它将交互式UI规范技术与空间工作空间相结合，积极支持非正式到正式UI规范任务中的跨学科参与者。基于我们的实证研究结果，我们提出了进一步的研究，探索性的模拟交互系统和明确的创造力支持，以及跨学科合作的援助的方法相结合。我们相信，在跨学科环境中模拟UI概念的可视化多尺度工作空间有助于UI设计实践的更多创新。通过设计中的通用语言和可访问的协作需求建模媒介，结合创新的可视化概念，我们将缩小学科之间的差距，并将弥合工作过渡，使UI规范的整个过程更加流畅和有形。为了实现我们的研究目标，我们将研究模拟，创造力支持，跨学科合作和信息可视化领域内的理论方法和技术，以开发包含详细原则的解决方案。最终，我们将根据讲座项目中的案例研究并与我们的工业合作伙伴合作评估我们的措施。