Ontology Supported Adaptive User Interfaces for Structural CAD Design

Abstract

In the early stages of the Steel Detailing Design process (Structural Design), most of the activities are focused in the designer. Nowadays Detailing CAD packages offer a wide range of options that in some cases exceeds the ones needed to fulfill a specific task. Sometimes having such a wide range span can be self-defeating for a smooth process evolution as the designer has to browse repetitively in the user interface for a particular tool. In this paper we present a Knowledge based approach for the exploitation of semantic aspects (e.g. user intentions and tasks) for the real time automatic generation of graphical user interfaces on a Steel Detailing CAD software. We base our approach it? international standards (CIS/2) for the specific domain and as test case we present a system implementation of the proposed schema.