CUP 2.0 high-level modeling of context-sensitive interactive applications

• Published in: Lecture notes in computer science pp. 140 - 154
• Main Authors: Van den Bergh, Jan, Coninx, Karin
• Format: Conference Proceeding Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin, Heidelberg Springer-Verlag 01.01.2006; Springer Berlin Heidelberg; Springer
• Series: ACM Conferences
• Subjects: Abstract User Interface; Activity Diagram; Applied sciences; Computer science; control theory; systems; Computer systems and distributed systems. User interface; Context Model; Exact sciences and technology; Software; Software engineering; User Interface; User Task; Code generation; Fidelity; Software development; Man machine system; User interface; High level language; Model driven architecture; Unified modelling language; Data models; Context aware; Modeling
• ISBN: 3540457720; 9783540457725
• ISSN: 0302-9743; 1611-3349
• DOI: 10.1007/11880240_11

The Unified Modeling Language is mainly being used to communicate about the design of a software system. In recent years, the language is increasingly being used to specify models that can be used for partial code generation. These efforts are mainly focussed on the generation of the application structure. It has been used to a lesser extend to model the interaction with the user and the user interface. In this paper, we introduce CUP 2.0, a Unified Modeling Language profile for high-level modeling of context-sensitive interactive applications. The profile was created to ease communication about the design of these applications between human-computer interaction specialists and software engineers. We further argue that the data provided by the models, suffices to (semi-) automatically create interactive low-fidelity prototypes that can be used for evaluation.