ITRI SEMINAR
               Thursday 20th November at 12.00


       Automating the Design of Spatial Configurations
                     in User Interfaces

                       Markus Fischer
                   University of Brighton


Graphical user interfaces are now the de facto standard  for
desktop computer  systems. Although  this means  potentially
great benefits for the users, the design of such  interfaces
has  become  an  increasingly  complex  task  for  interface
developers.

Computer-aided  user  interface  design  is  an  attempt  to
provide  valuable  support  for  the  developers.  In   this
approach, interfaces are no longer programmed, but  modelled
and automatically inferred. The talk documents research that
investigates  in   particular  the   design  issues   around
presentations  that  typically   occur  in  graphical   user
interfaces, with the aim to provide the design heuristics as
a resource for a computational interface development system.