An EUD Approach for Making MBUI Practical

Proceedings of the First International Workshop on Making model-based user interface design practical: usable and open methods and tools. Funchal, Madeira, Portugal, January.13, 2004Also published online by CEUR Workshop Proceedings (CEUR-WS.org, ISSN 1613-0073)In this paper, we present our perspective on Model-Based User Interfaces (hereafter MBUI) paradigm and provide with our experience in this area combining high-level knowledge-based data models (i.e. ontologies) and reverse engineering processes to carry through a pragmatic MBUI vision. Our approach is based on using End-User Development (hereafter EUD) techniques (i.e. Programming by Example) to enable the user to carry out editing tasks in a MBUI environment. This advocates an EUD-for-MBUI approach, where the system avoids the user from having to deal with interface specification languages.The work reported in this paper is being supported by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology (MCyT), project number TIC2002-194