The FLUIDE Framework for Specifying Emergency Response User Interfaces Employed to a Search and Rescue Case

This report presents the FLUIDE Framework with particular emphasis on its specification languages. The FLUIDE Framework supports development of flexible emergency response user interfaces. We demonstrate the FLUIDE Framework by giving examples from the FLUIDE specification of the user interface of an application supporting management of unmanned vehicles in search and rescue operations. We also report the findings from an experiment investigating how easy FLUIDE specifications are to understand for systems developers not knowing FLUIDE. We discuss these findings, their implications on the design of the languages and how specifications should be presented to systems developers,as well as implications for other specification languages, concluding that to ensure comprehensibility, only concrete specifications need to be communicated . A more comprehensive presentation of the user interfaces of the search and rescue application, and the complete FLUIDE specifications of these user interfaces are given in an appendix. Two further appendices include the user tasks and introductory material used in the experiment .

Oppdragsgiver: The EMERGENCY Project supported by the Research Council of Norway p.nr 187799/S10