Towards a Pattern Language for Distributed User Interfaces
Late-Breaking Works: Novel Interactions
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Shmorgun, Ilya
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Lamas, David
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Mercer, Eduardo
Extended Abstracts of the ACM CHI'16 Conference on Human Factors in
Computing Systems
2016-05-07
v.2
p.2712-2718
© Copyright 2016 ACM
Summary: Design patterns were initially proposed in architecture and later
appropriated in software engineering and HCI. Over the years they have proved
to be useful for modelling design experience in these domains. We introduce
patterns for designing distributed user interfaces (DUIs) as an aid for HCI
researchers and practitioners. The patterns are foreseen to work as building
blocks meant for scaffolding the design process. We describe the procedure for
collecting the patterns, as well as the effort undertaken towards development
of a pattern language by identifying relationships between individual patterns
and organising them into a hierarchy. Finally, an overview is given of the
future steps for assessing the expressiveness of this pattern language for
analysing existing and specifying new DUIs.