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Title

Template-based critic authoring for domain-specific visual language tools

Author(s)

Ali, Norhayati Mohd;  Hosking, John;  Huh, Jun;  Grundy, John

Abstract

In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in using computer-based "critic tools" for supporting the end-users or tool designers in analyzing and proactively improving their design artifacts. Several approaches have been applied to designing and realizing such critics, for example rule-based, pattern-matching and knowledge-based approaches. While many studies have found evidence that critic tools are an efficient feedback-providing mechanism, there is still insufficient knowledge about how to provide an effective critic authoring environment. In this paper we apply a business rule template approach as a mechanism to specify and realize critics for Marama-based domain-specific visual language tools. We describe a visual design critic authoring template approach that supports end-users or tool designers in the construction of critics for any Marama-based tools.

Publication type

Conference paper

Source

Proceedings of the IEEE Symposium on Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC 2009), Corvallis, United States, 20-24 September 2009 / Robert De Line, Mark Minas, and Martin Erwig (eds.), pp. 111-118

Publication year

2009

FOR Code(s)

0806 Information Systems

Keyword(s)

Authoring environments;  Business rules;  Design;  Design artifacts;  Domain-specific visual language;  End-users;  Knowledge based systems;  Knowledge-based approach;  Linguistics;  Query languages;  Rule based;  Template approach;  Template-based;  Tool designers;  User interfaces;  Visual design

Publisher

IEEE

ISBN

9781424448760, 142444876X

Publisher URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/VLHCC.2009.5295286

Copyright

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