Abstract
Currently, in the Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) community, there is not any standard model to define the interaction between the user and the software system. However, the Human–Computer Interaction (HCI) community has been recently dealing with this issue. A widely accepted proposal is the specification of the interaction at two levels or views: an Abstract Level, in which the User Interface (UI) is defined without taking into account any technological details, and a Concrete Level, in which the previous abstract models are extended with the information related to the target technology. The purpose of this chapter is to introduce the Abstract Level into the OO-Method MDE development process. Specifically, this chapter is focused on how the abstract interaction can be modeled by means of Abstract Interaction Patterns (AIPs). These patterns define a generic solution for an interaction between a user and an Information System (IS), without considering the technological details related to the final UI. In order to illustrate the approach, two AIPs are described.
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This work has been developed with the support of MEC under the project SESAMO TIN2007-62894.
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Valverde, F., Panach, I., Aquino, N., Pastor, O. (2009). Dealing with Abstract Interaction Modeling in an MDE Development Process: A Pattern-Based Approach. In: Macías, J., Granollers Saltiveri, A., Latorre, P. (eds) New Trends on Human–Computer Interaction. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-84882-352-5_12
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