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The Construction of User Interfaces and the Object Paradigm

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ECOOP’ 87 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming (ECOOP 1987)

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This article concerns generic tools for the construction of user interfaces: Application Frameworks and User Interface Management Systems (UIMS’s). In this article, we propose a new taxonomy for these tools, identify their limitations and show how the object paradigm can be exploited to overcome the current deficiencies such as support for generality, context and distribution. This taxonomy is the result of our own experience in designing MOUSE, an object-oriented UIMS based on a general model, PAC, that can be applied at any level of abstraction of a user interface. PAC structures any component of an interactive application into three parts: the Presentation which defines the external behaviour, the Abstraction which corresponds to internal concepts and the Control which bridges the gap between the syntax and the semantics.

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  1. Laboratoire de Génie Informatique (IMAG), BP 68, 38402, St-Martin-d’Hères, France

    Joëlle Coutaz

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  1. Laboratoire d’Informatique, LIB, Université de Bretagne Occidentale, 6, avenue V. le Gorgeu, F-29287, Brest Cédex, France

    Jean Bézivin

  2. 54, avenue des Gressets, F-92700, La Celle Saint-Cloud, France

    Jean-Marie Hullot

  3. Rank Xerox France, DRBI, 12, place de l’Iris, F-92071, La Défense, Cedex 38, France

    Pierre Cointe

  4. The Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 545, Technology Square, Cambridge, MA, 02139, USA

    Henry Lieberman

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Coutaz, J. (1987). The Construction of User Interfaces and the Object Paradigm. In: Bézivin, J., Hullot, JM., Cointe, P., Lieberman, H. (eds) ECOOP’ 87 European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming. ECOOP 1987. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 276. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-47891-4_12

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