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SUIM: The Semantic User Interface Markup

Award Information
Agency: Department of Defense
Branch: Army
Contract: W15P7T-12-C-H201
Agency Tracking Number: A2-4677
Amount: $723,621.00
Phase: Phase II
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: A10-095
Solicitation Number: 2010.2
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2010
Award Year: 2011
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2011-10-25
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2013-11-10
Small Business Information
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Portland, OR -
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DUNS: 098009918
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Rogan Creswick
 Principal Investigator
 (503) 808-7195
 creswick@galois.com
Business Contact
 Jodee LeRoux
Title: Contracts
Phone: (503) 808-7209
Email: jodee@galois.com
Research Institution
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Abstract

Ensuring User Interface consistency is extremely difficult - manual review and developer coordination is required to achieve uniform interaction metaphors across operating systems, web browsers, applications, and disparate devices. This is complicated by the capabilities of various UI toolkits and specific devices, as well as the development choices of the application programmers. We propose to develop a static analysis tool - termed SUIM - that verifies the semantic properties of an implemented user interface by statically analyzing interfaces described with a widely-deployed, device-independent user interface markup language. Our design includes a simple domain-specific language to codify user interface guidelines drawn from canonical resources such as Apple's Human Interface Guidelines. The SUIM tool will evaluate the specified guidelines on a user interface description, producing errors or warnings if the interface violates any of the guidelines. Organizations will be able to specify and distribute UI guidelines that can be integrated directly into the application development workflow, providing an unprecedented level of application consistency without restricting the programmer's development environment.

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