Patterns of HCI Design and HCI Design of Patterns: Bridging HCI Design and Model-Driven Software Engineering

Abstract

Despite the huge number of human–computer interaction (HCI) design patterns available, it has been recently identified that patterns are still difficult to find and apply, especially by patterns users, mainly software developers. In this chapter, we argue and demonstrate that the lack of an effective pattern representation is one of the main reasons for this problem. We discussed the idea of pattern lifecycle how it can lead to an environment for not only capturing and delivering patterns, but that also can automate the pattern lifecycle including the generation of applications from a pattern-oriented design. At the core of such environment, the concept of generative pattern has been introduced in other chapters.