Graphical User Interface Research At Tennessee

Graphical User Interfaces

Graphical user interfaces provide a pictorial means for a user to interact with an application. An application represents its data using various types of graphical objects and the user interacts with the application by manipulating the properties of these graphical objects (e.g., position, size, color, visibility, etc). At Tennessee, our focus is on developing software tools that make it easier for programmers to develop graphical user interfaces. Toward this end we are investigating spreadsheet-style programming and various visual, graphical interface development environments.

Principal People

Professors

Graduate Students

Rick Halterman (Phd)
Scott Venckus (Masters)

Research Colleagues

Brad Myers (Carnegie Mellon University)
Pedro Szekely (USC/Information Sciences Institute)
Scott Hudson (Georgia Institute of Technology)
Ian Smith (Georgia Institute of Technology)

Research Projects in Graphical User Interfaces:

Spreadsheet Programming: This project is investigating techniques and algorithms that allow spreadsheet-style constraints to specify graphical interfaces.
Optimizing Graphical User Interfaces: This project is investigating how profile-based compilation may be used to automatically apply various performance and storage optimizations to interfaces involving: 1) constraints and 2) structured graphics.
Lapidary: Lapidary is an interface design tool that allows the graphics and run-time behaviors that go inside an application window to be specified pictorially. Lapidary is part of the Garnet toolkit developed at Carnegie Mellon University.