Presented at CHI 2002, the ACM SIGCHI Annual Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, April 20 - 25, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA..

Using a Tree View Metapohr to Visualize Hardware Simulation for Testing

Per Jacobsson


PLAY research group, The Interactive Institute
c/o Viktoria Institute, Box 620, 405 30 Göteborg, SWEDEN
{per.jacobsson}@interactiveinstitute.se
http://www.interactiveinstitute.se/

Abstract

This paper suggests the use of a tree view metaphor as a suitable way of visualizing simulated hardware elements in a graphical user interface (GUI) for testing purposes. The prospective users declared a few comprehensive demands regarding the desired application - such as maximal availability of desktop space and ease of configuring and reconfiguring the hardware simulations. An application was prototyped and evaluated through interviews and an accompanying usability test. Preliminary evaluation shows that using the new GUI with the tree metaphor makes the task of configuration faster and saves desktop space.

Keywords

Graphical user interface, hardware simulation, third generation mobile telephony, tree view, 3G, usability test.

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