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Programming Research Group Technical Report TR-5-89

User interface languages: a survey of existing methods

Gregory Abowd, Jonathan Bowen, Alan Dix, Michael Harrison and Roger Took

October 1989, 65pp.

This report gives a survey of user interface languages and formal representations of user interfaces. The following aspects of User Interface Languages are considered:

  • expressiveness
  • readability
  • evaluation (is it possible to evaluate the ergonomic and functional quality of the user interface from the representation)
  • manipulation
  • compilation/interpretation
  • possibility to include knowledge representation.


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