TY - GEN
T1 - Fundamental aspects concerning the usability evaluation of model-driven object oriented programming approaches in machine and plant automation
AU - Obermeier, Martin
AU - Braun, Steven
AU - Sommer, Kerstin
AU - Vogel-Heuser, Birgit
PY - 2011
Y1 - 2011
N2 - Within the world of automation the trend of model-driven object oriented (oo) engineering has brought up fundamental questions about the applicability of these programming paradigms for Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) software. The authors present the results of previously conducted experiments on the usability of the classic procedural paradigm (IEC 61131-3) in machine and plant automation compared to model based approaches for PLC programming, in particular Unified Modeling Language (UML) and domain specific modeling languages. Extrapolating these experiments, we propose a way of enhancing usability evaluations by two means: First we present an improved modeling tool. Second, in order to determine the complexity of the tasks required to develop a PLC-program and to create constant boundary conditions for experimental studies, we propose using Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA) on both model-driven oo and the state of the art programming approach, concerning typical scenarios. Finally the results of our work are discussed.
AB - Within the world of automation the trend of model-driven object oriented (oo) engineering has brought up fundamental questions about the applicability of these programming paradigms for Programmable Logic Controller (PLC) software. The authors present the results of previously conducted experiments on the usability of the classic procedural paradigm (IEC 61131-3) in machine and plant automation compared to model based approaches for PLC programming, in particular Unified Modeling Language (UML) and domain specific modeling languages. Extrapolating these experiments, we propose a way of enhancing usability evaluations by two means: First we present an improved modeling tool. Second, in order to determine the complexity of the tasks required to develop a PLC-program and to create constant boundary conditions for experimental studies, we propose using Hierarchical Task Analysis (HTA) on both model-driven oo and the state of the art programming approach, concerning typical scenarios. Finally the results of our work are discussed.
KW - PLC-Programming
KW - Usability
KW - model-driven engineering
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=79960511665&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1007/978-3-642-21708-1_56
DO - 10.1007/978-3-642-21708-1_56
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79960511665
SN - 9783642217074
T3 - Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
SP - 497
EP - 506
BT - Design, User Experience and Usability
T2 - 1st International Conference on Design, User Experience and Usability: Theory, Methods, Tools and Practice, DUXU 2011, Held as Part of 14th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCI International 2011
Y2 - 9 July 2011 through 14 July 2011
ER -