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This paper presents SIROCO, a research on user interface design and development support in an object-oriented programming environment. User interface (UI) design in SIROCO focuses on conceptual modeling; a fully object-oriented conceptual representation model and language is proposed, distinguishing the function dimension from the use dimension in an interactive system. Interaction style and presentation aspects are dealt with as generic parameters. SIROCO promotes a continuous object-oriented approach from UI design to UI implementation. Transition from conceptual design to implementation is achieved through an extended object-oriented software architecture model. Effective UI development is supported by an object factory that produces the object code needed to implement the specified user interface.
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Normand, V., Coutaz, J. (1992). Unifying the design and implementation of user interfaces through the object paradigm. In: Madsen, O.L. (eds) ECOOP ’92 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 1992. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 615. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053035
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