A flow centric interaction model for requirements specification and user interface generation

A huge amount of information from customers, users and other stakeholders is present in the early phases of interactive software development. To preserve and capitalize this knowledge, a descriptive and flow-oriented Interaction Modeling Language (IML) is presented that is based on XML and Use-Cases. The ability to use this specification for user interface prototype generation renders the approach directly applicable for user-oriented rapid software development projects in practice. An abstract user interface representation and a language for the description of code generation rules complete the toolset and allow the embedding into a more generalized Soft Artifact Engineering approach