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Focus 3D Telemodeling Tool: GUI Design for Iteration 1
Published
Author(s)
Matthew L. Aronoff, John V. Messina, Eric D. Simmon
Abstract
The Focus 3D Telemodeling Tool was designed as a novel graphical interface to data modeling for standards development. This paper describes the design intent for the proposed Graphical User Interface (GUI) of Focus -- how users interact with the system and each other, what feedback is provided to indicate success or failure of a particular action, and how existing model data is made available to the user for modification or addition to a new model. Focus has been designed to satisfy the use cases specified in the document ?Focus 3D Telemodeling Tool: Use Cases for Iteration 1? by Arthur Griesser. Detailed use case descriptions may be found in that document. This document will describe the behaviors that satisfy those use cases: selection, creation, searching, moving, updating, and deleting behaviors, and the tool palette.
focus, 3d, uml, data modeling, xml, standards development
Citation
Aronoff, M.
, Messina, J.
and Simmon, E.
(2006),
Focus 3D Telemodeling Tool: GUI Design for Iteration 1, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD
(Accessed October 21, 2025)