Capturing Semantic Meaning on User Interface Presence By Creating Its Ontology

Abstract

Screenshots, known for years as capturing Graphical User Interface by means of print screen button or capturing software, is not only beneficial for creating user guide or user manual document, but also for reverse engineering process. This paper presents a new way of capturing the data appear on a screen by creating the ontology of its interface. Data capturing based on the interaction style of interface or windowing system, known as WIMP (Window Icon Menu Pointer). The Ontology model used as template, called as WIMP-UI. OWL is used as ontology language, Portégé as editor tools, and Pellet reasoner for reasoning.