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useML: A Human-Machine Interface Description Language
Detlef Zuehlke, Kizito Mukasa, Alexander Boedcher, Achim Reuther
Abstract
This paper describes a XML based user interface description language called useML, which was developed at the Center for
Human-Machine-Interaction at the Kaiserslautern University of Technology. The language allows a model based,
task oriented and platform independent description of user interfaces in production environments. The main concept
is the abstraction of user tasks and interactions into use objects and elementary use objects. The description forms
one central document called use model, from which platform specific prototypes can be generated. useML supports the
analysis, the structuring and parts of the design phase of the Useware development process, which is also introduced
in this paper. The structure of useML is described and its usage is demonstrated with an example. An outline of some
related languages has also been given.
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