Human-Computer Interface Design Guidelines: An Expert System

The development of user-centered human computer interfaces requires consideration of several design recommendations called guidelines. These guidelines are focused on interface usability and are proposed by several authors. This article proposes the use of an expert system to identify guidelines for a given project more effectively. The expert system developed suggests guidelines from the analysis of a situation described by the designer. Four hundred and thirty guidelines were included. The article also presents the technique used to organize the guidelines of several authors in the system.