Creating user interfaces using generic tasks
OwnerUdo Arend, Edmund Eberleh +1inventors
InventorsUdo Arend, Edmund Eberleh, Heinz Willumeit
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Abstract
Creating user interfaces by identifying specific tasks to be carried out by users, matching the specific tasks with generic tasks, and creating the user interface from generic user-interface components associated with the generic tasks. The generic user-interface components are specified with the details of the specific tasks. The generic user-interface components may be assembled in a generic floor plan. The specific and/or generic tasks may be identified by a reverse-engineering process including the analysis of a number of existing user interfaces.
Claims18
A method of developing a user interface comprising:
- identifying specific tasks to be carried out by users;
- matching each specific task with one among a plurality of generic tasks;
- and
- creating a user interface by gathering generic user-interface components associated with at least one of the generic tasks and specifying each generic user-interface component using the specific tasks that are matched with the generic task with which said generic user-interface component is associated.
A method of developing a user interface comprising:
- identifying a first plurality of specific tasks to be carried out by users;
- analyzing at least one application process to determine a second plurality of specific tasks included in the application process, determining a generic task for each specific task in the second plurality and associating each generic task with a generic user-interface component;
- matching each specific task in the first plurality with a generic task;
- and
- creating a user interface by gathering the generic user-interface components associated with at least one of the generic tasks and specifying the generic user-interface components using the specific tasks.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.