Workshop: 7. Tool Support for Task-Based User Interface Design

Sunday 09:00 - 17:30. Monday 09:00 - 12:30.

Birgit Bomsdorf, Universitaet GH Paderborn, Germany
Gerd Szwillus, Universitaet GH Paderborn, Germany

Task analysis and modeling are increasingly accepted as part of the user interface design process. This approach, referred to as task-based user interface design, must be supported by adequate tools, which stem from formal modeling or model-based approaches. The goal of this workshop is to learn more about these formal methods and the tool support needed when applying task-based user interface design in practice. We want to bring together researchers and practitioners to collect, structure, and interrelate work dealing with tools for task modeling, dialogue modeling, and the transition from task to dialogue modeling.

The workshop is intended for people from academia and research departments working, for instance, on model-based user interface design approaches or design environments, and for user interface designers in software development companies creating real designs in their everyday work practice. The workshop will be very interactive with most of the time used for discussion rather than presentations. Discussion will be encouraged by bringing together diverse groups such that different viewpoints can be developed and compared.

Participants will be selected based upon position papers addressing the following two discussion points:

• What formal methods and tool support do we need for task modeling, dialogue modeling, and the transition from task to dialog modeling?
• How is task modeling used in practice, what is its impact on the design process, and how can task modeling be further integrated into the design process?

More information is on the workshop's web page.

Contact:
Gerd Szwillus
Universitaet GH Paderborn
Fachbereich Mathematik/Informatik
D-33095 Paderborn Germany
Tel: +49 5251 60 6624
Email: szwillus@uni-paderborn.de