Towards a linguistic modeling of graphical user interfaces: Eliciting modeling requirements

Our research focuses on exploring alternative perspectives to developing and modeling graphical user interfaces to enhance adaptability of a graphical user interface. The aim of our research is to model graphical user interfaces from a linguistic perspective: a linguistic point of view to graphical user interfaces. The linguistic model aims at enhancing adaptability by enhancing two quality properties: the traceability and the maintainability. The linguistic perspective is based on the linguistic classification originally proposed by Nielsen and consists of several linguistic levels. This paper elaborates on the linguistic perspective to elicit modeling requirements per level. Our contribution is a set of modeling requirements on each level.