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

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

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A Graphic User Interface is developed to determine the existence of a particular sequence of piano notes within a monophonic sound waveform. Such waveforms are recorded within the Graphic User Interface and then passed to the monophonic analysis engine. The first phase of analysis segments the PCM sound data to localize the potential note locations. The second phase of analysis takes the segmented note locations, moves them to the frequency-domain, and utilizes a probabilistic identification process to determine the identity of each note. Two sound files can be processed together to decide if any notes are common between them. A frequency-based comparison model allows flexibility in finding overlap between the files. Theoretical concepts are visualized using the Graphic User Interface making it a tool for developing additional insight into the analysis of music. / Graduation date: 1997

Scientists in the biological sciences need to retrieve information from a variety of data collections, traditionally maintained in SQL databases, in order to conduct research. Because current assistant tools are designed primarily for business and financial users, scientists have been forced to use the notoriously difficult command-line SQL interface, supplied as standard by most database vendors. The goal of our research has been to establish the requirements of scientific researchers and develop specialized query assistance tools to help them query data collections across the Internet. This thesis describes our work in developing HyperSQL, a Web-to-database scripting language, and most importantly, Query Designer, a user-oriented tool for designing query interfaces directly on Web browsers. Current browsers (i.e., Netscape, Internet Explorer) do not easily interoperate with databases without extensive "CGI" (Common Gateway Interface) programming. HyperSQL is a scripting language that enables database administrators to construct forms-based query interfaces intended for end-users who are not proficient with SQL. Query results are formatted as hypertext-clickable links which can be used to browse the database for related information, bring up Web pages, or access remote search engines. HyperSQL query interfaces are independent of the database computer, making it possible to construct different interfaces targeting distinct groups of users. Capitalizing on our experience with HyperSQL, we developed Query Designer, a user-oriented tool for building query interfaces directly on Web browsers. No experience in SQL and HTML programming is necessary. After choosing a target database, the user can build a personalized query interface by making menu selections and filling out forms--the tool automatically establishes network connections, and composes HTML and SQL code. The automatically generated query form can be used immediately to issue a query, customized, or saved for later use. Results returned from the database are dynamically formatted into hypertext for navigating related information in the database. / Graduation date: 1997

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Tampere, 1999. / Description based on contents viewed Apr. 19, 2007; title from title screen. Includes bibliographical references (p. 58-67).

Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Delaware, 2006. / Principal faculty advisor: Lori L. Pollock, Dept. of Computer & Info Sciences. Includes bibliographical references.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--McMaster University, 2005. / Supervisor: Brian Detlor. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 234-272). Also available online.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2006. / Title proper from title frame. Also available in printed format.