A visual formalism for graphical user interfaces based on state transition diagrams

Carsten Maple; Tim French; Marc Conrad

doi:10.1109/IV.2003.1217977

A visual formalism for graphical user interfaces based on state transition diagrams

Carsten Maple
, Tim French
, Marc Conrad

Institute for Research in Applicable Computing (IRAC)

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Abstract

We present a "lightweight" visual formalism that can be used to examine the state space complexity of an interface. The method can form a basis for designing, testing and documenting the 'front-end' component of a typical GUI forms based interface. The standard is intended to be free standing and seeks to address issues specific to forms based GUI interfaces. The method is based on a state transition diagram (STD) notation that is used to model the GUI component. STDs can be used at an early stage in the design of an interface to quantify and control surface level complexity. Further to allowing a visualisation of the complexity of an interface, techniques used in graph theory are applied to determine a novel measure of complexity that can then be used to better usability.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	nan
Publisher	Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/IV.2003.1217977
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2003
Event	Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization, 2003 - London Duration: 18 Jul 2003 → 18 Jul 2003

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Conference	Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization, 2003
City	London
Period	18/07/03 → 18/07/03
Other	Seventh International Conference on Information Visualization, 2003 (18/07/2003-18/07/2003, London)

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