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Computer science in general and software engineering in particular are very dependent on formal specifications of the elements, structures, and operations of whatever is being designed for implementation on a computer. This dependency also extends to the area of HCI design. The definitions of a variety of interface structures (Chapter 4) and visualizable spaces in which those structures can be instantiated (Chapter 10) have been presented with the assertion that they are useful in designing interfaces. To bear that out, it is essential that the structural paradigms be properly included in the methodology for interface design and evaluation. This means that it must be possible to illustrate both their formal specification and their practical utility once they are specified.
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Treu, S. (1994). Structural Specification and Utility. In: User Interface Evaluation. Languages and Information Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2536-3_12
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