Ontological model driven GUI development: User Interface Ontology approach

Ontology and Semantic Framework has become pervasive in computer science. It has huge impact at database, business logic and user interface for a range of computer applications. This framework is also being introduced, presented or plugged at user interfaces for various software and websites. However, establishment of structured and standardized ontological model based user interface development environment is still a challenge. This paper talks about the necessity of such an environment based on User Interface Ontology (UIO). To explore this phenomenon, this research focuses at the User Interface entities, their semantics, uses and relationships among them. The first part focuses on the development of User Interface Ontology. In the second step, this ontology is mapped to the domain ontology to construct a User Interface Model. Finally, the resulting model is quantified and instantiated for a user interface development to support our framework. This UIO is an extendable framework that allows defining new sub-concepts with their ontological relationships and constraints.