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Designing user interface (UI) behaviour can be regarded as a mapping from product functions and a set of UI control scenarios to state-transition-based UI specification. However, in current UI prototyping tools, UI designers must directly describe the UI specification from scratch, and the specification is not explicitly related to the product functions. In this paper, we present a “Behaviour Modeller” to systematically support this mapping process. In the modeller, required functional relations of the product are modelled as a functional relation diagram (FRD), while UI control scenarios are modelled as sequence diagrams (SDs). The UI element Statechart (SC) templates are also introduced to enable efficient generation of the specification. The modeller automatically generates an SC as the complete state-transition-based UI specification from an FRD, SDs and templates. The designer can easily modify a complex SC only by inserting or removing functions in the FRD and by changing the scenario in SDs. The effectiveness of the method and tool was confirmed by application to UI design for consumer products.
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Urushihara, A., Kanai, S., Kishinami, T., Tomura, T. (2005). Behaviour Modeller. In: Jacob, R.J., Limbourg, Q., Vanderdonckt, J. (eds) Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces IV. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3304-4_6
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