An EUD Approach for Making MBUI Practical

In this paper, we present our perspective on Model-Based User Interfaces (hereafter MBUI) paradigm and provide with our experience in this area combining high-level knowledge-based data models (i.e. ontologies) and reverse engineering processes to carry through a pragmatic MBUI vision. Our approach is based on using End-User Development (hereafter EUD) techniques (i.e. Programming by Example) to enable the user to carry out editing tasks in a MBUI environment. This advocates an EUD-for-MBUI approach, where the system avoids the user from having to deal with interface specification languages. Keywords Model-Based User Interfaces, End-User Development, Programming By Demonstration, Knowledge Representation, Semantic Web, Web Authoring Tools.

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2004
• Where: MBUI
• Authors: José A. Macías, Pablo Castells
• Keywords: End-user Development, Keywords Model-Based User, MBUI 2004, Model-Based User Interfaces, User Interface