The BCD transient recorder revisited: firmware for the ISA-to-USB bridging card and software for the graphical user interface

This report describes recent updates to the custom-built data-acquisition hardware operated by the Center for Hypersonics. In 2006, an ISA-to-USB bridging card was developed as part of Luke Hillyard's final-year thesis. This card allows the hardware to be connected to any recent personal computers via a (USB or RS232) serial port and it provides a number of simple text-based commands for control of the hardware. A graphical user interface program was also updated to help the experimenter manage the data acquisition functions. Sampled data is stored in text files that have been compressed with the gzip for mat. To simplify the later archiving or transport of the data, all files specific to a shot are stored in a single directory. This includes a text file for the run description, the signal configuration file and the individual sampled-data files, one for each signal that was recorded.

GUIsurfer: A Reverse Engineering Framework for User Interface Software

GUIsurfer: A Reverse Engineering Framework for User Interface Software

An approach for graphical user interface bad smells detection

In the context of an e ort to develop methodologies to support the evaluation of interactive system, this paper investigates an approach to detect graphical user interface bad smells. Our approach consists in detecting user interface bad smells through model-based reverse engineering from source code. Models are used to de ne which widgets are present in the interface, when can particular graphical user interface (GUI) events occur, under which conditions, which system actions are executed, and which GUI state is generated next.

User-interface technologies for the industrial environment: towards the cyber-factory

In the past few years the so-called gadgets like cellular phones, personal data assistants and digital cameras are more widespread even with less technological aware users. However, for several reasons, the factory-floor itself seems to be hermetic to this changes ... After the fieldbus revolution, the factory-floor has seen an increased use of more and more powerful programmable logic controllers and user interfaces but the way they are used remains almost the same. We believe that new user-computer interaction techniques including multimedia and augmented rcaliry combined with now affordable technologies like wearable computers and wireless networks can change the way the factory personal works together with the roachines and the information system on the factory-floor. This new age is already starting with innovative uses of communication networks on the factory-floor either using "standard" networks or enhancing industrial networks with multimedia and wireless capabilities.

Designing a user interface for repositories of learning objects

This paper presents the design of a user interface for repositories of learning objects. It integrates several tasks, such as submission, browse, search, and comment/review of learning objects, on a single screen layout. This design is being implemented on the web front-end of crimsonHex, a repository of specialized learning objects, developed as part of the EduJudge, a European project that aims to bring automatic evaluation of programming problems to eLearning systems.

Avatar modeling: a telepresence study with natural user interface

Dissertação para obtenção do Grau de Mestre em Engenharia Electrotécnica e de Computadores

Automated User Interface testing in Symbian Operating System

Tässä diplomityössä tutkitaan automatisoitua testausta ja käyttöliittymätestauksen tekemistä helpommaksi Symbian-käyttöjärjestelmässä. Työssä esitellään Symbian ja Symbian-sovelluskehityksessä kohdattavia haasteita. Lisäksi kerrotaan testausstrategioista ja -tavoista sekä automatisoidusta testaamisesta. Lopuksi esitetään työkalu, jolla testitapausten luominen toiminnalisuus- ja järjestelmätestaukseen tehdään helpommaksi. Graafiset käyttöliittymättuovat ainutlaatuisia haasteita ohjelmiston testaamiseen. Ne tehdään usein monimutkaisista komponenteista ja niitä suunnitellaan jatkuvasti uusiksi ohjelmistokehityksen aikana. Graafisten käyttöliittymien testaukseen käytetään usein kaappaus- ja toistotyökaluja. Käyttöliittymätestauksen testitapausten suunnittelu ja toteutus vaatii paljon panostusta. Koska graafiset käyttöliittymät muodostavat suuren osan koodista, voitaisiin säästää paljon resursseja tekemällä testitapausten luomisesta helpompaa. Käytännön osuudessa toteutettu projekti pyrkii tähän tekemällä testiskriptien luomisesta visuaalista. Näin ollen itse testien skriptikieltä ei tarvitse ymmärtää ja testien hahmottaminen on myös helpompaa.

Automating The User Interface Implementation Process by Code Generation

3G-radioverkon asetusten hallinnointi suoritetaan säätämällä radioverkkotietokantaan talletettavia parametreja. Hallinnointiohjelmistossa tuhannetradioverkon parametrit näkyvät käyttöliittymäkomponentteina, joita ohjelmiston kehityskaaressa jatkuvasti lisätään, muutetaan ja poistetaan asiakkaan tarpeidenmukaan. Parametrien lisäämisen toteutusprosessi on ohjelmistokehittäjälle työlästä ja mekaanista. Diplomityön tavoitteeksi asetettiin kehittää koodigeneraattori, joka luo kaiken toteutusprosessissa tuotetun koodin automaattisesti niistä määrittelyistä, jotka ovat nykyäänkin saatavilla. Työssä kehitetty generaattori nopeuttaa ohjelmoijan työtä eliminoimalla yhden aikaa vievän ja mekaanisen työvaiheen. Seurauksena saadaan yhtenäisempää ohjelmistokoodia ja säästetään yrityksen ohjelmistotuotannon kuluissa, kun ohjelmoijan taito voidaan keskittää vaativimpiin tehtäviin.

Portable Application User Interface Development in Symbian OS

Symbian OS on käyttöjärjestelmä edistyneille matkapuhelimille. Symbiania käyttävistä laitteista on monia muunnoksia. Joitakin käytetään näppäimistön avulla ja toisia kynällä. Näytön mittasuhteet ja muut ominaisuudet vaihtelevat huomattavasti älypuhelimista kommunikaattoreihin. Tämän seurauksena Symbianin eri laiteperheiden viitemallien käyttöliittymäosat ovat sovelluskehittäjän kannalta melko erilaisia. Esimerkiksi kaikki käyttöliittymäkomponentit eivät ole saatavilla kaikissa laiteperheissä. Perinteisesti sovellusten käyttöliittymät on kirjoitettu erikseen kullekin laiteperheelle, mikä pidentää kehitysaikaa. Tämä työ esittelee Symbianin käyttöliittymäarkkitehtuurin, siirrettävyyden käsitteen ja tekniikoita sovellusten suunnitteluun ja toteutukseen, joilla saavutetaan parempi siirrettävyys Symbian-ympäristössä. Työssä suunnitellaan ja toteutetaan AppTest-nimisen testaustyökalun käyttöliittymä siten, että sovellus on helposti siirrettävissä eri laiteperheisiin.

Web user interface architecture for advanced planning and scheduling systems Case: Nokia Demand / Supply Planning Applications

In modem hitec industry Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) systems provide the basis for e-business solutions towards the suppliers and the customers. One objective of this thesis was to clarify the modem supply chain management with the APS systems and especially concentrate on the area of Collaborative Planning. In order Advanced Planning and Scheduling systems to be complete and usable, user interfaces are needed. Current Visual Basic user interfaces have faced many complaints and arguments from the users as well as from the development team. This thesis is trying to analyze the reasons and causes for the encountered problems and also provide ways to overcome them. The decision has been made to build the new user interfaces to be Web-enabled. Therefore another objective of this thesis was to research and find suitable technologies for building the Web-based user interfaces for Advanced Planning and Scheduling Systems in Nokia Demand/Supply Planning business area. Comparison between the most suitable technologies is made. Usability issues of Web-enabled user interfaces are also covered. The empirical part of the thesis includes design and implementation of a Web-based user interface with the chosen technology for a particular APS module that enables Collaborative Planning with suppliers.

Improving and User Interface to E-Procurement Software Used in Asset Accounting and Investigating Effects to Efficiency

This diploma thesis has been done to international organization which takes care from the accounting actions of two major companies. In this organization are used three different purchasing tools which are used when new asset master data is wanted to input to SAP R/3- system. The aim of this thesis is to find out how much changing the user interface of one of these three e-procurement programs will affect to overall efficiency in asset accounting. As an addition will be introduced project framework which can be used in future projects and which help to avoid certain steps in the development process. At the moment data needs to be inputted manually with many useless mouse clicks and data needs to be searched from many various resources which slow down the process. Other organization has better tools at the moment than the myOrders system which is under investigation Research was started by exploring the main improvement areas. After this possible defects were traced. Suggested improvements were thought by exploring literature which has been written from usability design and research. Meanwhile also directional calculations from the benefits of the project were done alongside with the analysis of the possible risks and threats. After this NSN IT approved the changes which they thought was acceptable. The next step was to program them into tool and test them before releasing to production environment. The calculations were made also from implemented improvements and compared them to planned ones From whole project was made a framework which can be utilized also to other similar projects. The complete calculation was not possible because of time schedule of the project. Important observation in the project was that efficiency is not improved not only by changing the GUI but also improving processes without any programming. Feedback from end user should be also listened more in development process. End-user is after all the one who knows the best how the program should look like.

Model-View-Controller architectural pattern and its evolution in graphical user interface frameworks

Model-View-Controller (MVC) is an architectural pattern used in software development for graphical user interfaces. It was one of the first proposed solutions in the late 1970s to the Smart UI anti-pattern, which refers to the act of writing all domain logic into a user interface. The original MVC pattern has since evolved in multiple directions, with various names and may confuse many. The goal of this thesis is to present the origin of the MVC pattern and how it has changed over time. Software architecture in general and the MVC’s evolution within web applications are not the primary focus. Fundamen- tal designs are abstracted, and then used to examine the more recent versions. Prob- lems with the subject and its terminology are also presented.

Designing a user interface for game developers to enter game specific information

Designing user interfaces for novel software systems can be challenging since the usability preferences of the users are not well known. This thesis presents a usability study conducted for the development of a user interface for game developers to enter game specific information. By conducting usability testing, the usability preferences of game developers were explored and the design was shaped according to their needs. An assessment of the overall usability of the final design is provided together with the main findings that include the usability preferences and design recommendations. The results showed that the most valuable usability preferences are quickness, error tolerance and the ability to constantly inspect the entered information.

Mirage 2: A responsive user interface for DSpace

Presentation at Open Repositories 2014, Helsinki, Finland, June 9-13, 2014

User interface standards for expert systems: are they appropriate?

In recent years there has been a growing debate over whether or not standards should be produced for user system interfaces. Those in favor of standardization argue that standards in this area will result in more usable systems, while those against argue that standardization is neither practical nor desirable. The present paper reviews both sides of this debate in relation to expert systems. It argues that in many areas guidelines are more appropriate than standards for user interface design.