An e-whiteboard application to support early design-stage sketching of UML diagrams

Author

Chen, Qi ; Grundy, John ; Hosking, John

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Auckland Univ., New Zealand

fYear

2003

fDate

28-31 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

219

Lastpage

226

Abstract

We describe a Unified Modelling Language (UML) diagramming tool that uses an e-whiteboard, pen-based sketching interface to support collaborative design. Our tool allows designers to sketch UML visual modelling language constructs, mixing different UML diagram components, free-hand annotations and hand-written text. A key novelty of our approach is the preservation of hand-drawn diagrams and support for manipulation of the diagrams using pen-based actions. UML sketches can be "formalized" to computer-recognised and drawn diagrams, and exported to a 3rd party CASE tool.

Keywords

Unified Modeling Language; computer aided software engineering; groupware; software tools; user interfaces; visual languages; CASE tool; UML diagram component; UML diagramming tool; UML sketches; Unified Modelling Language; collaborative design; computer-recognised diagram; design-stage sketching; drawn diagram; e-whiteboard; free-hand annotation; hand-drawn diagram; hand-written text; pen-based sketching interface; visual modelling language; Application software; Collaborative tools; Collaborative work; Computer aided software engineering; Computer displays; Computer science; Scheduling; Software design; Software standards; Unified modeling language;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments, 2003. Proceedings. 2003 IEEE Symposium on

Print_ISBN

0-7803-8225-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HCC.2003.1260232

Filename

1260232