Title:

Research, Design, and Implementation of an Intelligent, Preemptive GUI for a P2P Collaboration Tool

Objective:

The goal of this project is to research GUIs and attempt to collect this 
research to create two GUI systems. One, a prototype, which would be adapted 
to the second, a fully functional and extensible GUI for a popular 
collaboration tool known as WASTE. This GUI would be intelligent; adapting to 
the users needs as it discovers the users habits.

Justification:

In recent years GUI research has been neglected. The GUI is what the user has 
to deal with daily, and although many companies believe that their user 
interfaces are clear and easy to use, users still have problems grasping basic 
functions. One solution for this is to create an intelligent GUI which attempts
compensate for user ignorance and/or error.

Description:

Stage 1: The preliminary stage would involve research of previous GUI studies. 
During the late 70s and early 80s many companies, including Xerox and others, 
were conducting studies on efficiency and ease of use of various GUI styles. 
This would provide the basis for stage two.

Stage 2: Stage two would be the implementation of these ideas into the 
intelligent GUI concept.

Stage 3: The third stage would be the creation of a prototype GUI, implementing
the concepts developed in stage 2, to create a simple "dummy" program to 
demonstrate the features.

Stage 4: The final stage would be the implementation of concepts tested in the 
prototype to create a usable GUI for a popular SourceForge project, known as 
WASTE.

Limitations:

Time can be a limitation. The prototype may take longer than expected to 
develop. If so, the implementation of the fully functioning GUI for the 
SourceForge project may not be completed.