FW: Information discussed during our last conference call

FYI!

 

James Helms

 

Director of Research and 
Development

Harmonia, Inc

Phone: (540)  951-5910

-----Original Message-----
From: Jean Vanderdonckt 
[mailto:]
Sent: Monday, October 18, 2004 
1:55 PM
To: Marc Abrams; James Helms
Subject: Information 
discussed during our last conference call

Hi Marc and 
James,

 

Here is the 
information I mentioned during the call:

 

- Oliva Nova (by 
CARE Technologies) is a software that automatically generates web and Java 
applications from a task model (very simplified), a domain model (very 
sophisticated) containing a large behavior part. You can view a demo from http://www.care-t.com/products/index.html

 

- The American 
standard I mentioned is the NUREG-0700, released by the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory 
Commission. See it at http://www.nrc.gov/reading-rm/doc-collections/nuregs/staff/sr0700/ 
This standard contains a lot of usability guidelines for electronic equipment in 
many different contexts of use, like ships, tanks, command post, control rooms, 
etc. The standard is being written under the responsibility of Brookhaven 
National Lab (www.bnl.gov). In the late 
nineties, I was leader of a project with them to put the guidelines on-line with 
some appropriate tool. See http://www.isys.ucl.ac.be/bchi/research/drg.htm

 

- My colleague Denis 
Javaux is a human factors consultant working for different companies like 
Airbus, BelgoControl (Belgian Air Traffic Control), Tractebel Engineering. He is 
using formal descriptions of panels, buttons, etc that he combines into an 
"activity model". Each control is attached to a series of properties and logical 
formula which can be executed. He developed a suite of tools in Python for this 
purpose. You can contact him at 

 

- When I saw the 
UIML-CAD tool for the first time, I saw that there were many similarities 
between this software and IdealXML (which I sent you, I believe). I would be 
interested also to compare both tools in terms of coverage and capabilities. 
IdealXML produces UsiXML specifications for the task model, the domain model, 
the abstract UI model. Since last week, a new version of GrafiXML can be 
downloaded from http://www.usixml.org/?view=page&idpage=10, 
including the last version of the syntaxt-sensitive UsiXML 
editor.

 

- In general, you 
can register at http://www.usixml.org/index.php?view=login&idpage=10 so 
that you can be kept informed of any significant news about 
UsiXML.

 

Marc, you talked 
about another company for an expert systam that will serve as a design 
assistant. Is it possible to have more information about that? How do you 
implement it?

 

Best 
regards,

 

Jean

 

P.S. To sum up what 
I said regarding the contract, Quentin and I will do the consultancy with some 
part of the funds during the second quarter (Jan 2005 to June 2005) until we 
found a student and until he will be operational enough.