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A design framework for screenless user interfaces

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2024 ASEE-GSW

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Canyon, Texas

Publication Date

March 10, 2024

Start Date

March 10, 2024

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March 12, 2024

Page Count

9

DOI

10.18260/1-2--45363

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https://strategy.asee.org/45363

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christian saeed daftarian St. Mary's University

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Graduate student seeking Master's in Software Engineering. This is my thesis abstract.

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Ozgur Aktunc St. Mary's University

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Ozgur Aktunc, Ph.D., is a Professor of Software Engineering and Graduate Program Director at St. Mary’s University Engineering Department. Dr. Aktunc’s main research area is software engineering with an emphasis on component-based software development. In particular, his research relates to software analysis, software metrics, agile development, and usability of web applications.

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Abstract

Software GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) are becoming more software-centric and less hardware-dependent with each passing decade. If GUIs continue to evolve in this same direction over the next few years, we should expect to see GUI technology that no longer requires screens to display their content. Instead, they will be projected into free space and interacted with through freehand gestures. Furthermore, this could reduce the need for static (non-changing) size and position parameters in current GUI frameworks. Instead, we could see more dynamic GUI frameworks that are more scalable, adjustable, and spatially responsive to the user and surrounding environment. The screenless nature of GUIs could also induce the need for multi-positional parameters within common GUI functions. Therefore, we should expect our GUI code to grow exponentially in both size and complexity as hardware reduction continues. To accommodate this increase in size and complexity of GUI code and allow for better maintainability, we should prepare to separate and modularize GUI code from other software components. This paper discusses what technological advancements and design principles have laid the groundwork for such screen-less projection technology to blossom. This paper will also discuss the planning, development, and testing of a pseudo-screenless projection device that helps demonstrate some of the important changes that will need to be incorporated into modern GUI frameworks in order to accommodate the need for real-time interface re-sizing and position switching in a screen-less environment.

daftarian, C. S., & Aktunc, O. (2024, March), A design framework for screenless user interfaces Paper presented at 2024 ASEE-GSW, Canyon, Texas. 10.18260/1-2--45363

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