Past, present, and future of user interface software tools

By Brad A. Myers, Scott E. Hudson, Randy F. Pausch. ACM Trans. Comput. Hum. Interact., 2000

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Subfields: Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, Human-Computer Interaction

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prefuse: a toolkit for interactive information visualization (2005, background): “In particular, abstractions such as filtering and action lists might seem foreign to some programmers, constituting the threshold for toolkit use [37].”
Reflective physical prototyping through integrated design, test, and analysis (2006, background): “The d.tools visual authoring environment contributes a lower threshold tool and provides stronger support for rapidly developing the “insides of applications” [29].”
Fair Work: Crowd Work Minimum Wage with One Line of Code (2019, background): “Existing approaches retain a high threshold of effort (Myers, Hudson, and Pausch 2000); our goal is to drastically lower the effort threshold.”
MyExperience: a system for in situ tracing and capturing of user feedback on mobile phones (2007, methodology): “In enumerating properties of successful tools, Myers et al. [ 24 ] define two important characteristics: the threshold which represents how difficult it is to learn the system and the ceiling which describes how much can be accomplished by using the system.”
CmapTools: A Knowledge Modeling and Sharing Environment (2004, background): “Low Threshold, High Ceiling Myers, Hudson, and Pausch (2000) referred to the “threshold” as how difficult it is to learn how to use a system, and the “ceiling” as how much can be done using that system.”
Automatically generating personalized user interfaces with Supple (2010, background): “It can also incorporate additional concerns, such as similarity to previously seen renderings of a user interface, even if those renderings were generated for other devices (Section 5.3).”
Investigating statistical machine learning as a tool for software development (2008, background): “In short, systems constrained in such ways provide a low ﬂoor (a low barrier to entry) at the expense of a low ceiling (the point at which the tool’s assumptions and constraints become an obstacle to addressing a problem) [21].”
Evaluation Strategies for HCI Toolkit Research (2018, methodology): “Toolkits define rules or pathways for users to create new solutions, leading them to right solutions and away from wrong ones [73].”