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Essential modeling: use cases for user interfaces

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Volume 2 , Issue 2 (April 1995) table of contents

Pages: 34 - 46

Year of Publication: 1995

ISSN:1072-5520

Author

Larry L. Constantine

Univ. of Technology, Sydney, Australia; and Constantine & Lockwood, Ltd., Boston, MA

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ACM New York, NY, USA

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CITED BY 9

	Paul McInerney, User interface specifications: techniques for conveying design information, CHI 98 conference summary on Human factors in computing systems, p.167-168, April 18-23, 1998, Los Angeles, California, United States
	Max Murdock, Software design teams at Iomega, interactions, v.3 n.2, p.11-14, March 1996
	Larry Constantine , Helmut Windl, Safety, speed, and style: interaction design of an in-vehicle user interface, Proceedings of the 27th international conference extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, April 04-09, 2009, Boston, MA, USA
	Leonel Nóbrega , Nuno Jardim Nunes , Helder Coelho, DialogSketch: dynamics of the canonical prototypes, Proceedings of the 4th international workshop on Task models and diagrams, September 26-27, 2005, Gdansk, Poland
	George Casaday , Cynthia Rainis, Requirements, models, and prototypes for HCI design, Conference companion on Human factors in computing systems: common ground, p.361-362, April 13-18, 1996, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
	Larry L. Constantine , Lucy A. D. Lockwood, Use cases in task modeling and user interface design, CHI '99 extended abstracts on Human factors in computing systems, May 15-20, 1999, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
	Larry Constantine , Pedro Campos, CanonSketch and TaskSketch: innovative modeling tools for usage-centered design, Companion to the 20th annual ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications, October 16-20, 2005, San Diego, CA, USA
	Isabel Díaz , Francisca Losavio , Alfredo Matteo , Oscar Pastor, A specification pattern for use cases, Information and Management, v.41 n.8, p.961-975, November 2004
	Larry L. Constantine , Lucy A. D. Lockwood, Usage-centered software engineering: an agile approach to integrating users, user interfaces, and usability into software engineering practice, Proceedings of the 25th International Conference on Software Engineering, May 03-10, 2003, Portland, Oregon

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
H. Information Systems
H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)
H.5.2 User Interfaces (D.2.2, H.1.2, I.3.6)

Additional Classification:
D. Software
D.2 SOFTWARE ENGINEERING
D.2.1 Requirements/Specifications
D.2.10 Design**

General Terms:
Design, Experimentation, Human Factors

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