Automated Generation of User-Interface Prototypes Based on Controlled Natural Language Description

Most software applications are derived from customer needs, which mainly are expressed as functional requirements. These requirements are the basis for software construction. Identifying user actions, system actions, inputs and outputs from functional requirements, is a fundamental task for deriving usability aspects. In this paper we present a proposal for automating the generation of user interface prototypes with the main idea of minimize the task overload and take advantage of work that is already done in development cycle such as: requirements and use case description expressed in natural language. This proposal allows us to integrate functionality and usability since the beginning of the software development process. Also, we present a basis for the automation of adaptive user interfaces generation.