Interactive Systems: Design, Specification, and Verification [electronic resource] : 8th International Workshop, DSV-IS 2001. Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June 13-15, 2001. Revised Papers /

Mobile Interface Design -- An XML-Based Runtime User Interface Description Language for Mobile Computing Devices -- Model-Based User Interface Design Using Markup Concepts -- Abstract User Interfaces: A Model and Notation to Support Plasticity in Interactive Systems -- Task Modelling for Context-Sensitive User Interfaces -- Supervision and Control Systems -- Industrial User Interface Evaluation Based on Coloured Petri Nets Modelling and Analysis -- A Tool Suite for Integrating Task and System Models through Scenarios -- Temporal and Stochastic Issues -- Temporal Patterns for Complex Interaction Design -- Modelling Dynamic Group Behaviours -- Reasoning about Interactive Systems with Stochastic Models -- New Perspectives -- Towards Uniformed Task Models in a Model-Based Approach -- Heuristic Evaluation of Website Attractiveness and Usability -- Affordance and Symmetry.

This book constitutes the thoroughly refereed post-proceedings of the 8th International Workshop on the Design, Specification, and Verification of Interactive Systems, DSV-IS 2001, held in Glasgow, Scotland, UK, in June 2001. The 12 revised full papers presented have gone through two rounds of reviewing, selection, and revision. The book offers topical sections on mobile interface design, context-sensitive interfaces, supervision and control systems, temporal and stochastic issues, and new perspectives.