Towards canonical task types for user interface design
(2009) 2009 Latin American Web Congress. LA-WEB 2009 — Location: Merida, Yucatan, Mexico (9.November.2009)
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- Task models are the cornerstone of user-centred design methodologies for user interface design. Therefore, they deserve attention in order to produce them effectively and efficiently, while guaranteeing the reproducibility of a task model: different persons should in principle obtain the same task model, or a similar one, for the same problem. In order to provide user interface designers with some guidance for task modelling, a list of canonical task types is proposed that offers a unified definition of frequently used tasks types in a consistent way. Each task type consists of a task action coupled with a task object, each of them being written according to design guidelines. This list provides the following benefits: tasks are modelled in a more consistent way, their definition is more communicable and shared, task models can be efficiently used for model-driven engineering of user interfaces.
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Gonzalez-Calleros, J. M., Guerrero-Garcia, J., Vanderdonckt, J., & Munoz-Arteaga, J. (2009). Towards canonical task types for user interface design. In Chavez, E.; Furtado, E.S.; Moran, A.L.; (ed.), 2009 Latin American Web Congress. LA-WEB 2009 (p. p. 63-70). IEEE. https://doi.org/10.1109/LA-WEB.2009.33