This chapter describes the development of GUI-based applications, from usability engineering and prototyping to acceptance test-driven development, in an agile context. An overview of current agile interaction design practices will be presented, including a thorough analysis of the current role of prototyping and current attempts to facilitate test-driven development of GUI systems, as presente...

VTK (The Visualization Toolkit) has become one of the most popular modular visualization environments. It is an open source software, which has evolved rapidly, new tools being constinuously integrated and a new (minor) release being produced daily. This rapid evolution makes it difficult to develop a graphic user interface (GUI) while maintaining software integrity, that is coherence between i...

User interfaces have special characteristics that differentiate them from the rest of the software code. Typical software metrics that indicate its complexity and quality may not be able to distinguish a complex GUI or a high quality one from another that is not. This paper is about suggesting and introducing some GUI structural metrics that can be gathered dynamically using a test automation t...

In a recent SIGMOD paper, Goyal et al. [7] asked whether GUI programming is a database research problem and answered it in the affirmative giving a solution based on logical programming. Here, we argue similarly in that GUI-related data should be removed from program code altogether and be placed into tables. To achieve the goal of shorter and more transparent GUI programs, we indicate how suit...

iran is an active seismic region. earthquake damage is commonly controlled by three interacting factors including source and path characteristics, local geological and geotechnical conditions and type of the structures. obviously, all of this would require analysis and presentation of a large amount of geological, seismological and geotechnical data. in this paper, nonlinear geotechnical seismi...

There are many methods of rapidly prototyping a graphical user interface (GUI), the most prominent being paper prototyping and wireframe prototyping. In paper prototyping, the developer creates a physical GUI prototype using simple materials such as paper, pencils, and tabbed cards. Paper prototyping, while easy to implement, leads to unrealistic and awkward user interaction. Wireframe prototyp...

As the possibilities and popularity of mobile computing devices increases, there is an opportunity to accomplish more and more desktop-related tasks with them. Most tasks require a Graphical User Interface (GUI) that allows users to tap buttons, make selections, fill in forms, etc. Because of the diversity in mobile devices, it is difficult to develop a single GUI that runs on all of these devi...

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This paper presents a novel three-dimensional finite element generation method for assessing the biomechanical behavior of multi-connected complex teeth and mandible structure. Tetrahedron was chosen as the basic element type for its adaptability to structures with darerent geometrical complexities. The element generation was implemented by combining two tetragons in adjacent image slices. By e...