the-midnight-paper

Prefab: Implementing Advanced Behaviors Using Pixel-Based Reverse Engineering of Interface Structure

Authors: Morgan Dixon and James Fogarty

Conference: CHI 2010, April 10–15, 2010, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Keywords: Prefab, user interface toolkits, pixel-based reverse engineering.

Strength

The biggest strength of this paper is the concept of reverse engineering interface structure by identifying pre-fabricated units and then modeling their relations.

Weakness

Authors only seemed to test Prefab on Windows system and Macintosh OS X. No user studies has been done in Linux environment.

Future Work

It would be interesting to see how well PreFab scales across different environments and how effective it is under the Linux environment.