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Publication date: 1 de June, 2021

2006 RUIPIACS Rapid User Interface Prototyping Infrastructures Applied to Control Systems

Generally speaking, control systems are concrete hardware machines which expose hundreds and in some cases thousands of physical controls. Those are meant mainly to allow system operators to supervise and take actions on the controls to fix a problem or conduct a process in a determinate way.

In order to produce good quality user interfaces adequate to this specific domain, the system designer has to face some challenges. Typically, the high number of controls and exceptional situations require a well organized rapid prototyping methodology. Moreover,
a common feature for complex control systems is that the software is often developed while the system itself is still in engineereing, requiring a certain dynamicity of the framework to easily add, remove or change design properties.
We observe that there is a lack of a good rapid prototyping infrastructure to reflect required new changes so that the system designer can be able to quickly validate the GUI against the operators (users). This leads to a situation where the implementation of such GUIs is time consuming because they are coded from scratch. Therefore, the community requires robust methodologies that lead to a fast and effective way to derive GUIs (Graphical User Interfaces) from the specification of a control system, or at least guide the system
designer in its specification.

The workshop aims to collect current experience and further the state-of-the-art in the subject of Rapid User Interface Prototyping Infrastructures Applied to Control Systems (RUIPIACS) as well as to define future directions by bringing together people with practical experience and/or involved in related theoretical research efforts.

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