—Widget selection when designing user interfaces is a rather intuitive task. No clearly establish... more —Widget selection when designing user interfaces is a rather intuitive task. No clearly established methodology containing in-depth descriptions of widgets or explicit rules to choose them has been included in the major development processes. Widget catalogs are only partially specified and do not overtly consider the domain-field knowledge representation as bound to current tasks. Moreover, these representations have not undergone any systematic approach from the point of view of their structure. The first aim of this paper is to formally describe the major types of content that widgets can host from this perspective. We call these types " Information Structures " and divide them into 5 categories (" atom " , " collection " , " hierarchy " , " taxonomy " and " network "). We then specify a series of features allowing to classify widgets alongside with their informational content structure and set a framework for widget description.
—Widget selection when designing user interfaces is a rather intuitive task. No clearly establish... more —Widget selection when designing user interfaces is a rather intuitive task. No clearly established methodology containing in-depth descriptions of widgets or explicit rules to choose them has been included in the major development processes. Widget catalogs are only partially specified and do not overtly consider the domain-field knowledge representation as bound to current tasks. Moreover, these representations have not undergone any systematic approach from the point of view of their structure. The first aim of this paper is to formally describe the major types of content that widgets can host from this perspective. We call these types " Information Structures " and divide them into 5 categories (" atom " , " collection " , " hierarchy " , " taxonomy " and " network "). We then specify a series of features allowing to classify widgets alongside with their informational content structure and set a framework for widget description.
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