Work on both the graphical user interface (GUI) and the conversational user interface (CUI) started at about the same time, about 40 years ago. The GUI was a lot easier to implement, and it made computing and information resources available to ordinary people—but over the years it has lost much of its simplicity and charm. The CUI has taken many more years to develop, requiring major scientific...

We studied the usability of a Voice User Interface (VUI) that is consistent with a Graphical User Interface (GUI), and focused on its dependency with user age-groups. Usability tests were iteratively conducted on 245 Japanese subjects with age-groups from 20s to 60s using a prototype of an in-vehicle information application. Next we calculated and analyzed statistics of the usability tests. We ...

Today, lists are the prevalent representation format for search results on the Internet (e.g. Amazon or eBay). While lists are well suited for specific queries, they are of little help for nonspecific queries. Theoretically, visual search interfaces outperform list interfaces for task types such as nonspecific queries, because they make use of additional semantic information (like price, date o...

Algorithmic Debugging is a method for semi-automatic program debugging, where the debugger incrementally acquires knowledge about the debugged program by interacting with the user. However, a major obstacle that prevents large-scale use of the method is the large number of questions (sometimes hard to answer) put to the user. One important improvement would be to provide a graphical user interf...

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In this paper we discuss a set of guidelines which could be adapted when designing an audio user interface for the visually impaired. It is based on an audio environment that is focused on audio positioning. Unlike current applications which only interpret Graphical User Interface (GUI) for the visually impaired, this particular audio environment bypasses GUI to provide a direct auditory output...

We describe mGTK, a Standard ML language binding for the Gtk+ toolkit. Gtk+ is a graphical toolkit for the X Window System, and provides an object-oriented C language API. Since Standard ML is a mostly-functional language without object types, constructing a binding to Gtk+ is not a trivial task. In mGTK, a single-inheritance class hierarchy is encoded using SML’s type system. Most of the mGTK ...

Automated GUI (Graphical User Interface) testing tools are software programs used to test application user interfaces and to verify their functionalities. However, due to the uncertainty of runtime execution environments GUI operations may not be reproduced at the DUT (Device Under Test) on time. The incorrect GUI operations then result in test failures. In this work we design SPAG (Smart Phone...

Wireless sensor networks are presently a growing area as they form a platform for many applications associated to surroundings monitoring, fitness and wellbeing, supervision and military surveillance. One of the major design aspects of Wireless Sensor Network (WSN) is the sensor node deployment strategy. The deployment strategy is vital because it can affect the performance of the network. A Gr...

The provision of Graphical User Interface (GUI) front-ends for legacy applications presents a number of engineering challenges. These can include language inter-operability problems and locating suitable hooks into the original application. These issues are further complicated for Internet front-ends which allow users to access an application remotely. This paper describes a project which addre...