Task Modelling -- The Influence of Improved Task Models on Dialogues -- Task-Based Web Modelling: The Web Object Life Cycle Modelling Concept -- Hypermedia and Web-Based Systems -- Model-Based Design of Online Help Systems -- A Design Toolkit for Hypermedia Applications Based on Ariadne Development Method -- SWCEditor: A Model-Based Tool for Interactive Modelling of Web Navigation -- Model-Based Design -- Behaviour Modeller -- MAUI: An Interface Design Tool Based on Matrix Algebra -- Goliath: An Extensible Model-Based Environment to Develop User Interfaces -- Transformational Development of User Interfaces with Graph Transformations -- Usability Engineering -- A Distributed Usage Monitoring System -- Dialogue-Based Design of Web Usability Questionnaires Using Ontologies -- Creating Contextualised Usability Guides for Web Sites Design and Evaluation -- Usability Testing of Interaction Components -- Infigura, an Integrated Design Tool -- Instrumenting Bytecode for the Production of Usage Data -- Patterns and Re-use -- Patterns in Model-Based Engineering -- Analysis and Design of Model-Based User Interfaces -- Interaction Templates for Constructing User Interfaces from Task Models -- Automating a Design Reuse Facility with Critical Parameters -- Mark-up Languages -- XICL — An Extensible Mark-up Language for Developing User Interface and Components -- UIML.Net: an Open UIML Renderer for the .Net Framework -- Ubiquitous Computing -- The Ubiquitous Interactor — Device Independent Access to Mobile Services -- Generating Context-Sensitive Multiple Device Interfaces from Design -- A Lightweight Experiment Management System for Handheld Computers -- Mixed-Reality Systems -- Generic Interaction Techniques for Mobile Collaborative Mixed Systems -- The Continuity Property in Mixed Reality and Multiplatform Systems: A Comparative Study -- Speech-Based Systems -- Building Rich User Interfaces for Digital Talking Books -- A Framework for Developing Conversational User Interfaces -- A System for Manipulating Audio Interfaces Using Timbre Spaces.

Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces IV gathers the latest research of experts, research teams and leading organisations involved in computer-aided design of user interactive applications supported by software, with specific attention for platform-independent user interfaces and context-sensitive or aware applications. This includes: innovative model-based and agent-based approaches, code-generators, model editors, task animators, translators, checkers, advice-giving systems and systems for graphical and multimodal user interfaces. It also addresses User Interface Description Languages. This books attempts to emphasize the software tool support for designing user interfaces and their underlying languages and methods, beyond traditional development environments offered by the market. It will be of interest to software development practitioners and researchers whose work involves human-computer interaction, design of user interfaces, frameworks for computer-aided design, formal and semi-formal methods, web services and multimedia systems, interactive applications, and graphical user and multi-user interfaces.