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A User Interface Management System (UIMS) handles the dialogue between an application program and the end-user, and it provides tools for construction of the dialogue. Ideally, it should be possible to develop the dialogue part concurrently with the application part. This would speed up development and allow a user-centered dialogue design to be combined with a more formal application development. To what extent this is actually possible, depends on the interface between the UIMS and the application program.
This paper discusses interface problems between UIMS and application. We show a solution of the problems based on exchange of complex data structures and high-level (abstract) commands. We show how it allows concurrent development of the dialogue and the application, and how it can support various kinds of application programs like traditional programs, multitasked or distributed programs, and object-oriented programs.
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Lauesen, S., Harning, M.B., Bøving, H.F. (1993). Dialogue independence based on a structured UIMS interface. In: Grechenig, T., Tscheligi, M. (eds) Human Computer Interaction. VCHCI 1993. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 733. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-57312-7_76
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