SHF: HCC: Small: Software Design Sketching

SHF：HCC：小型：软件设计草图

• 批准号: 1118052
• 负责人: Adriaan van der Hoek
• 金额: $ 50万
• 依托单位: University of California-Irvine
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2011
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2011-08-01 至 2014-07-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1118052&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SHF; HCC; Small; Software; Design

Software design sketching refers to the practice of software designers to, when faced with a design problem, not immediately turn to existing modeling tools, instead choosing to use pen-and-paper or the whiteboard to work through the problem and come up with a solution. This research explores modern hardware such as electronic whiteboards, tablets, and their latest incarnations, iPads and Slates, in creating a novel, computer-supported software design sketching environment that significantly enhances the software design sketching experience.The work consists of two interwoven strands. One strand involves field studies of professional software designers at three different companies working on real design problems in their native environments. Findings from these studies anchor the work in the second strand, which involves the design, development, and evaluation of Calico, a design sketching environment centering on five distinct features: (1) fluid manipulation of sketched content through carefully designed gestures, (2) refinement from rough sketches to precise models through scraps and softmodes, (3) approximate analysis of incomplete and imprecise models via annotations and imprecise languages, (4) abstraction from code to sketch through contextualized sketching, and (5) access to and reflection upon design history through intentional interfaces and design history views.The techniques and tools developed by this project are intended to transform how software designers work and improve the quality of the resulting software-intensive systems, with impact in both in industry and in education.

软件设计草图是指软件设计人员在遇到设计问题时，不会立即转向现有的建模工具，而是选择使用纸笔或白板来解决问题并提出解决方案。本研究探讨了现代硬件，如电子白板，平板电脑，和他们的最新化身，iPad和石板，在创建一个新颖的，计算机支持的软件设计草图环境，显着提高软件设计草图的经验。 其中一条涉及到对三家不同公司的专业软件设计人员的实地研究，他们在各自的本地环境中处理真实的设计问题。 这些研究的结果锚在第二链的工作，其中涉及的设计，开发和Calico的评估，设计素描环境围绕五个不同的特点：（1）通过精心设计的手势对草图内容进行流畅的操作，（2）通过废料和软模式从粗略的草图到精确的模型进行细化，（3）通过注释和不精确的语言对不完整和不精确的模型进行近似分析，（4）通过情境化草图从代码抽象到草图，以及（5）通过有意识的界面和设计历史视图访问和反思设计历史。该项目开发的技术和工具旨在改变软件设计人员的工作方式，并提高由此产生的软件密集型系统的质量，对工业和教育都有影响。