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by Lam Siu Hong. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1991. / Includes bibliographical references. / Chapter Chapter1 --- Introduction --- p.1 / Chapter 1.1 --- Software Development Crisis of User Interface --- p.1 / Chapter 1.2 --- Objectives and Scope of Interests --- p.1 / Chapter 1.3 --- Overview of the Thesis --- p.2 / Chapter Chapter2 --- Background and Problems --- p.4 / Chapter 2.1 --- Categories of User Interfaces --- p.4 / Chapter 2.2 --- Trends of User Interfaces --- p.6 / Chapter 2.3 --- Some other Desirable Features and Problems of UI Development --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3.1 --- Separating UI from Application --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3.1.1 --- Benefits of Separable UIs and Applications --- p.7 / Chapter 2.3.1.2 --- Requirements of Complete Separation --- p.10 / Chapter 2.3.2 --- Instant Continuous Feedback --- p.12 / Chapter 2.3.2.1 --- Problems of Linguistic Model on World Model Type UIs --- p.12 / Chapter 2.3.3 --- Undo and Recovery --- p.15 / Chapter 2.3.4 --- Iterative Design through Rapid Protyping --- p.16 / Chapter Chapter3 --- An Object-Oriented Model for Model World User Interfaces Development --- p.18 / Chapter 3.1 --- Features of UIs to be supported by the Model --- p.18 / Chapter 3.2 --- A Linkage Model for Separating UI from Application --- p.19 / Chapter 3.2.1 --- Communication Messages Modeled using an Object Oriented Approach --- p.20 / Chapter 3.2.2 --- A Sample Message --- p.22 / Chapter 3.2.3 --- Linkage in a Distributed Heterogenous Environment --- p.24 / Chapter 3.2.4 --- Comparing the Linkage Model with the Application Interface Model in Seeheim's UI Model --- p.25 / Chapter 3.3 --- An Object-Oriented Model for Supporting Multiple Feedbacks and Multi-thread dialogue --- p.26 / Chapter 3.3.1 --- An Overview of the Model --- p.27 / Chapter 3.3.2 --- Objects on the Lexical Layer --- p.28 / Chapter 3.3.3 --- Roles of Presentation Objects --- p.29 / Chapter 3.3.4 --- Syntactic Objects --- p.31 / Chapter 3.3.5 --- Interaction Objects --- p.32 / Chapter 3.3.6 --- Interaction between objetcs and Linkage Component --- p.33 / Chapter 3.3.7 --- Multiple U-tubes Ladder for Supporting Multiple Feedbacks --- p.33 / Chapter 3.3.8 --- Recovery through a Generic UNDO stack --- p.35 / Chapter 3.3.9 --- Dialogue Control in an Object --- p.37 / Chapter 3.3.10 --- Interactive Objects --- p.39 / Chapter 3.3.11 --- An Architecture for Supporting Multi-thread Dialogue --- p.40 / Chapter 3.4 --- Basic Object Structure --- p.42 / Chapter 3.4.1 --- An Event Model for Dialogue Control --- p.43 / Chapter 3.4.2 --- Maintain Consistency through ε-rules --- p.45 / Chapter 3.4.3 --- An Example of an Inner Object Specification --- p.47 / Chapter 3.4.4 --- Pre and Post Condition of Action --- p.49 / Chapter 3.4.5 --- Automatic Message Routing --- p.49 / Chapter 3.5 --- Systematic Approach to UI Specification --- p.50 / Chapter Chapter4 --- User Interface Framework Design --- p.52 / Chapter 4.1 --- A Framework for UI Development --- p.52 / Chapter 4.1.1 --- Abstract Base Class for Each Object Type --- p.54 / Chapter 4.1.2 --- A Kernel for Message Routing --- p.60 / Chapter 4.1.3 --- Interaction Knowledge Base --- p.63 / Chapter 4.1.4 --- A Dynamic View of UI Objects --- p.64 / Chapter 4.1.5 --- Switch Box Mechanism for Dialogue Switching --- p.66 / Chapter 4.1.6 --- Software IC Construction --- p.68 / Chapter 4.2 --- Summaries of Object-Object UI Model and UI Framework --- p.70 / Chapter 4.2.1 --- A New Approach to User Interface Development 、 --- p.70 / Chapter 4.2.2 --- Feautures of UI Development provided by the Object-Object UI Model and UI Framework --- p.71 / Chapter Chapter5 --- Implementation --- p.73 / Chapter 5.1 --- Implementation of Framework in Microsoft Window Environment --- p.73 / Chapter 5.1.1 --- Implementation of automatic message routing through dynamic binding --- p.73 / Chapter 5.1.2 --- A generic message structure --- p.75 / Chapter 5.1.3 --- A meta class for object communication --- p.76 / Chapter 5.1.4 --- Software component of UI framework in Microsoft Window environment --- p.76 / Chapter 5.2 --- A Simple Stock Market Decision Support System (SSMDSS) --- p.77 / Chapter 5.2.1 --- UI Specification --- p.81 / Chapter 5.2.2 --- UI features supported by SSMDSS --- p.87 / Chapter Chapter6 --- Results --- p.89 / Chapter 6.1 --- Facts discovered --- p.89 / Chapter 6.1.1 --- Asynchronous and synchronous communication among objects --- p.89 / Chapter 6.1.2 --- Flexibility of the C+ + language --- p.90 / Chapter 6.2 --- Technical Problems Encountered --- p.91 / Chapter 6.2.1 --- Problems from Implementation Platform --- p.91 / Chapter 6.2.2 --- Problems due to Object Decomposition in an Interactive Object in SSMDSS --- p.92 / Chapter 6.3 --- Objectives accomplished by the Object-Oriented UI Model indicated by SSMDSS --- p.93 / Chapter Chapter7 --- Conclusion --- p.95 / Chapter 7.1 --- Thesis Summary --- p.95 / Chapter 7.2 --- Merits and Demerit of the Object-Oriented UI Model --- p.96 / Chapter 7.3 --- Cost of the Object-Oriented UI Model --- p.96 / Chapter 7.4 --- Future work --- p.97 / Appendix / Chapter A1 --- An Alogrithm for Converting Transition Network Diagram to Event Response Language --- p.A1 / Chapter A2 --- An Object-Oriented Software Development --- p.A4 / Chapter A2.1 --- Traditional Non Object-Oriented Software Development --- p.A4 / Chapter A2.2 --- An Object-Oriented Software Development --- p.A6 / Chapter A3 --- Vienna Development Method (VDM) --- p.A8 / Chapter A3.1 --- An Overview of VDM --- p.A8 / Chapter A3.2 --- Apply VDM to Object-Oriented UI model --- p.A10 / Chapter A4 --- Glossaries and Terms --- p.A12 / Reference

by Fong Siu-kit. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1994. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 73-77). / Abstract --- p.1 / Chapter 1. --- Introduction --- p.2 / Chapter 2. --- Background and Related Work --- p.5 / Chapter 2.1 --- Requirements of a Good Query Language /Interface --- p.5 / Chapter 2.2 --- Casual versus Frequent Users --- p.6 / Chapter 2.3 --- Graphical User Interface --- p.8 / Chapter 2.4 --- Windowing --- p.10 / Chapter 2.5 --- Use of Voice in User Interface --- p.11 / Chapter 2.6 --- Related Work --- p.12 / Chapter 2.6.1 --- Examples of Query Interface Designs in the Literature --- p.13 / Chapter 2.6.2 --- Examples of Query Interfaces in Commercial Packages --- p.15 / Chapter 3. --- Interface Design Concepts --- p.17 / Chapter 3.1 --- Data Model --- p.18 / Chapter 3.2 --- General Guidelines on Interface Design --- p.19 / Chapter 3.3 --- Divide and Conquer Strategy --- p.21 / Chapter 3.4 --- Unit of Operation --- p.24 / Chapter 3.5 --- The Second Clicking Principle --- p.26 / Chapter 3.6 --- Use of Voice in the Interface --- p.28 / Chapter 3.7 --- Customization of User Level --- p.29 / Chapter 4. --- Interface Specification and implementation --- p.30 / Chapter 4.1 --- System Menu --- p.31 / Chapter 4.2 --- ER Diagram and Tables Window --- p.33 / Chapter 4.3 --- Overview on R Window and Result Icon Window --- p.36 / Chapter 4.4 --- Choose Fields Operation --- p.38 / Chapter 4.5 --- Choose Rows Operation --- p.41 / Chapter 4.6 --- Combine Tables Operation --- p.45 / Chapter 4.7 --- For Each Group Operation --- p.49 / Chapter 4.8 --- Set Operations --- p.50 / Chapter 4.9 --- Decomposition and Recomposition of Queries --- p.51 / Chapter 5. --- Example of Application for a Complex Query --- p.54 / Chapter 6. --- Help Facilities and Error Handling --- p.63 / Chapter 6.1 --- Help Function --- p.64 / Chapter 6.2 --- Error Diagnosis --- p.66 / Chapter 7. --- Summary and Conclusion --- p.69 / Bibliography --- p.73 / Appendix --- p.78

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Thesis (M.S.)--University of Nevada, Reno, 2006. / "May, 2006." Includes bibliographical references (leaves 77-80). Online version available on the World Wide Web.