Most software development approaches and curricular guidelines seem to ignore the fact that in many software systems the user interface is a decisive factor for product quality. As a result, it is often designed rather independently of the system’s functionality. Chances are then that it does not get the attention it deserves. In the approach to software development we sketch, the design of the...

This paper reports the development of mobile computing in construction management. The paper focuses on the methodology of the development based on EUC. First, the paper indicates the effectiveness of EUC in construction projects. The authors introduce design pattern of user interface and the use of UML for EUC. Secondly, the paper describes the process of development of PDA Inspection Support ...

SUITEKeys is a speech user interface for motor-disabled computer users. This interface provides access to all available functionality of a computer by modeling interaction at the physical keyboard and mouse level. SUITEKeys is currently implemented for MS Windows platforms. Its architecture integrates a continuous, speakerindependent recognition engine with natural language processing component...

PEN-Ivory is a pen-based computer system that uses structured data entry for creating patient progress notes. Users make simple gestures such as circles, lines, and scratch-outs to enter medical findings from a controlled vocabulary. The result of an interaction with PEN-Ivory is a computer-generated patient progress note in English prose. We designed PEN-Ivory's user interface in a principled ...

Most software development approaches and curricular guidelines seem to ignore the fact that in many software systems the user interface is a decisive factor for product quality. As a result, it is often designed rather independently of the system’s functionality. Chances are then that it does not get the attention it deserves. In the approach to software development we sketch, the design of the...

Complexity inherent to groupware systems implies a considerable effort in design and development because of the need of multi-discipline collaboration work and the technical difficulty involved in the task (shared data, complicated collaborative activities, task distribution, group awareness, feedthrough, etc.). A key element for usability is the groupware user interface disposed to the enhance...

Augmented Reality (AR), enhancing a user’s perception of the real world with computer generated entities, and mobile computing, allowing users to access and manipulate information anytime and independent of location, are two emerging user interface tech­ nologies that show great promise. The combination of both into a single system makes the power of computer enhanced interaction and communicat...

For most computer systems even virtual reality systems sensing techniques are a means of getting input directly from the user However wearable sensors and computers o er a unique opportunity to re direct sensing technology towards recovering more general user context Wearable computers have the potential to see as the user sees hear as the user hears and experience the life of the user in a rst...

Microcontrollers are very popular in electronics and computer-controlled systems worldwide. This paper presents the control of a microcontroller-based system using the computer and explains comprehensively the hardware and software parts of the microcontroller. Peripheral Interface Controller (PIC) software developed by Microchip (MPASM) is used in programming a PIC microcontroller, and Visual ...

Providing helpful analysis of cognitive process is one of the main concerns for user modeling and adaptive hypermedia conception. In this paper, a work is presented that looks very closely to the Human Computer Interactions and exploits these interactions to help novice computer users. We think that all the cognitive actions involved in a task resolution reflect the level of expertise that the ...