Abstract
The central question for this paper is how to improve
the production process by closing the gap
between industrial designers and software engineers
of television(TV)-based User Interfaces (UI) in an
industrial environment. Software engineers are
highly interested whether one UI design can be
converted into several fully functional UIs for TV
products with different screen properties. The aim
of the software engineers is to apply automatic layout
and scaling in order to speed up and improve
the production process. However, the question is
whether a UI design lends itself for such automatic
layout and scaling. This is investigated by analysing
a prototype UI design done by industrial designers.
In a first requirements study, industrial designers
had created meta annotations on top of their UI
design in order to disclose their design rationale for
discussions with software engineers. In a second
study, industrial designers assessed the potential of
four different meta annotation approaches. The
question was which annotation method industrial
designers would prefer and whether it could satisfy
the technical requirements of the software engineering
process. One main result is that the industrial
designers preferred the method they were already
familiar with, which therefore seems to be the most
effective one although the main objective of automatic
layout and scaling could still not be achieved.
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | Proceedings of 4th European Conference on Interactive Television (EuroITV 2006), ELTRUN-Athens University of Economics and Business |
Editors | G. Doukidis, K. Chorianopoulos, G. Lekakos |
Pages | 73-82 |
Publication status | Published - 2006 |
Event | conference; 4th European Conference on Interactive Television (EuroITV2006), Athens.; 2006-05-25; 2006-05-26 - Duration: 25 May 2006 → 26 May 2006 |
Conference
Conference | conference; 4th European Conference on Interactive Television (EuroITV2006), Athens.; 2006-05-25; 2006-05-26 |
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Period | 25/05/06 → 26/05/06 |
Other | 4th European Conference on Interactive Television (EuroITV2006), Athens. |