Suitability of visual modelling languages for modelling tangible user interface applications

Author

Tobias, Eric ; Ras, E. ; Amalio, N.

Author_Institution

Service Sci. & Innovation Dept., Public Res. Centre Henri Tudor, Luxembourg, Luxembourg

fYear

2012

fDate

Sept. 30 2012-Oct. 4 2012

Firstpage

269

Lastpage

270

Abstract

This paper compares the suitability of visual modelling languages for describing tangible user interface (TUI) applications. After gathering different approaches, we have selected three languages for our comparative study: the visual object constraint language (VOCL), augmented constraint diagrams (ACD), and the visual contract language (VCL). A weighted evaluation based on multiple quality criteria led to the conclusion that VCL is best suited to model TUI applications.

Keywords

haptic interfaces; simulation languages; visual languages; ACD; TUI applications; VCL; VOCL; augmented constraint diagrams; quality criteria; tangible user interface application modelling; tangible user interface applications; visual contract language; visual modelling languages; visual object constraint language; Computational modeling; Contracts; DSL; Electronic mail; Unified modeling language; User interfaces; Visualization; Comparative Study; Constraint Diagrams; Model Driven Development; VCL; VOCL; Visual Languages;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2012 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Innsbruck

ISSN

1943-6092

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0852-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VLHCC.2012.6344548

Filename

6344548