ModelGenGUIs – High-level Interaction Design with Discourse Models for Automated GUI Generation

Abstract

Since manual creation of user interfaces is hard and expensive, automated generation may become more and more important in the future. Instead of generating UIs from simple abstractions, transforming them from high-level models should be more attractive. In particular, we let an interaction designer model discourses in the sense of dialogues (supported by a tool), inspired by human-human communication. This tutorial informs about our approach, both about its advantages and its challenges (e.g., in terms of usability of generated UIs). In particular, our unique approach to optimization for a given device (e.g., a Smartphone) that applies Artificial Intelligence (AI) techniques will be high-lighted, as well as the techniques based on ontologies for automated GUI generation and customization. We also address low-vision accessibility of Web-pages, by combining automated design-time generation of Web-pages with responsive design for improving accessibility.