Formal methods for interactive systems
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Bibliographic Information
Formal methods for interactive systems
（Computers and people series）
Academic Press, c1991
Available at 10 libraries
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Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Intended for professional, research-level and advanced undergraduates in human-computer interaction and formal methods for software engineering, this book addresses the problems governing the usability of computer interfaces. These problems are approached from the angle of the mathematical modelling of intertive systems. By modelling various facets of the system - such as windows, real time phenomena, and dynamic pointers - the book demonstrates how formal methods of software engineering (particularly functional programming) can be used to enhance the efficiency and usability of interactive systems.
Table of Contents
- PIEs - the simplest black box model
- red-PIEs - result and display
- sharing and interference in window managers
- the myth of the infinitely fast machine
- non-determinism as a paradigm for understanding the user interface
- opening up the box
- dynamic pointers - an abstraction for indicative manipulative
- complementary functions and complementary views
- events and status - mice and multiple users
- applying formal models
- conclusions - mathematics and the art of abstraction.
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