A Dialog-Oriented User Interface Generation Mechanism

Nowadays, for GUI application development, a number of interface builders make possible for the user to create user interfaces easily and UIMSs help to speci f y and design user interfaces. However, interface builders lack support of selecting appropriate interaction items for a specific application and UIMSs have little support of low-cost implementation technique because they have concentmted on the description technique. To solve these problems, in this paper we describe an approach to support both design and implementation activities on GUI application development by generating a default interface from described dialog and by customizing the generated interface interactively using an interface builder. I t enables to decrease development costs by supporting GUI development from the early stage and by excluding the necessity of specifying and preparing design rules for presentation style.