Models and Abstractions for Next-Generation User Interface Software

* 9625573 Jacob该项目旨在发明和实现一种新的模型，抽象和语言，为描述和构建下一代用户界面提供正式的基础，这将涉及并行，连续的用户-计算机交互。 下一代新兴的用户-计算机交互风格被称为非WIMP，并以并行和连续交互为代表，如虚拟现实或虚拟环境中所见。 该项目的目标是开发一个模型和抽象，捕捉下一代对话的正式结构，从用户和对话的角度来看，而不是从紧急情况的实施方式，现有的技术已经捕获基于命令的，文本的，基于事件的对话。 当前大多数用户界面描述语言和软件系统都是基于串行、离散、基于事件的交互。 今天的大多数非WIMP接口的例子都是用更适合以前的接口风格的基于事件的模型设计和实现的。 因为这些模型不能明确地捕捉连续的、并行的交互，所以接口需要相当多的特别的、低级的、尽管是高度创造性的编程方法。 这项工作最终将被设计和构建虚拟现实和其他非WIMP交互风格的用户界面的人使用。 ***

*** 9625573 Jacob This project seeks to invent and implement a new model, abstraction, and language to provide a formal basis for describing and building next-generation user interfaces, which will involve parallel, continuous user-computer interactions. The next generation of emerging user-computer interaction styles has been called non-WIMP and is typified by parallel and continuous interactions, as seen in virtual reality or virtual environments. The project goal is to develop a model and abstraction that captures the formal structure of next-generation dialogues from the point of view of the user and the dialogue, rather than from the exigencies of the implementation in the way that existing techniques have captured command-based, textual, and event-based dialogues. Most current user interface description languages and software systems are based on serial, discrete, event-based interaction. Most of today's examples of non-WIMP interfaces have, of necessity, been designed and implemented with event-based models more suited to previous interface styles. Because those models fail to capture continuous, parallel interaction explicitly, the interfaces have required considerable ad-hoc, low-level, though highly inventive programming approaches. This work would ultimately be used by people who design and build user interfaces in virtual reality and other non-WIMP interaction styles. ***