GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2011-01-28 Thread pablo pazos
at openehr.org Subject: Re: GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs) On 15/12/2010 00:57, pablo pazos wrote: Hi Thomas, ... You describe a very big picture and sounds logic, so we'll have

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-20 Thread Erik Sundvall
Hi! On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 00:30, Thomas Beale thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com?wrote: On 10/12/2010 08:49, Erik Sundvall wrote: If the already present annotation mechanism in templates is powerful enough (Do you think it is, Koray,?Pablo and others?) to be clear, do you mean the

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-20 Thread Thomas Beale
On 20/12/2010 12:05, Erik Sundvall wrote: Hi! On Wed, Dec 15, 2010 at 00:30, Thomas Beale thomas.beale at oceaninformatics.com wrote: On 10/12/2010 08:49, Erik Sundvall wrote: If the already present annotation mechanism in templates is powerful enough (Do you think it is, Koray, Pablo and

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-16 Thread Koray Atalag
: GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs) Hi All I sense Thomas is right. If you look at the exam archetypes there is a pattern of unlimited normal statements. This allows anything to be said but for it to be classified as normal even if it is text. There is work to do

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-15 Thread Koray Atalag
discussions Subject: Re: GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs) Hi everyone, for those interested, my full thesis is available here: http://www.sourcefusion.nl/thesis/Dissertation-HvdL.pdf A link on the openEHR website to this PDF is appreciated. Sorry for not participating

New requirements from endoscopy (was Re: GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs))

2010-12-15 Thread Grahame Grieve
hi Koray Unknown Indeterminate. (though they overlap) Generally, this is not really an endoscopy requirement. I've seen it come up in all sorts of contexts. (for instance, the Australias structured pathology reports). Even in the case of a list of medications: you can assert that the patient

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-15 Thread pablo pazos
On 15/12/2010 00:57, pablo pazos wrote: Hi Thomas, ... You describe a very big picture and sounds logic, so we'll have: Level 1: archetypes (for model complete data sets about a concept, general

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-14 Thread Koray Atalag
Of Thilo Schuler Sent: Monday, 13 December 2010 7:20 p.m. To: For openEHR technical discussions Subject: Re: GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs) Hi everybody, I got permission to publish the MedInfo paper and its successor mentioned below. You can find it here (last row

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-14 Thread Thomas Beale
On 10/12/2010 08:49, Erik Sundvall wrote: Hi! A very interesting discussion, thanks to everybody here! Great with all references too! On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 16:26, pablo pazos pazospablo at hotmail.com mailto:pazospablo at hotmail.com wrote: Maybe if we change the terminology to GUI

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-14 Thread pablo pazos
Hi Thomas, Correct me if I'm wrong: If templates can specialize templates in several generations of inheritance/specialisation (This is the case, right?), then we could use the same basic annotation formalism for different purposes in different layers, only the

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-13 Thread Thilo Schuler
Hi everybody, I got permission to publish the MedInfo paper and its successor mentioned below. You can find it here (last row of table): http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/resources/MedInfo+2007+-+Brisbane+Australia Cheers, Thilo After that Helma, her supervisor, Rong and I published a very

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-11 Thread Thilo Schuler
Hi Koray, Erik, Pablo, Pariya and other GUI interested These are very exciting times for me. I have been interested in openEHR GUIs and GUI generation since the first experiments that the co-authors and I did prior to publishing the MIE 2006 paper that Koray mentioned. For those still interested

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-10 Thread Koray Atalag
-technical-boun...@openehr.org] On Behalf Of pablo pazos Sent: Thursday, 9 December 2010 7:39 a.m. To: openehr technical Subject: RE: GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs) Hi Ian, If I understand what Thomas said I would suggest that the GUI templates just reference paths found

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-10 Thread Erik Sundvall
Hi! A very interesting discussion, thanks to everybody here! Great with all references too! On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 16:26, pablo pazos pazospablo at hotmail.com wrote: Maybe if we change the terminology to GUI Templates and openEHR Templates, we will not have these problems. Or perhaps GUI

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-08 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Koray, I agree with Thomas here, Koray, but I take your point about the separation into a further layer represents added potential development complexity. I think we should expect tools to handle this in the same way that a complex development environment like Visual Studio handles various

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-08 Thread Thomas Beale
On 08/12/2010 14:32, Ian McNicoll wrote: Hi Koray, I agree with Thomas here, Koray, but I take your point about the separation into a further layer represents added potential development complexity. well... software engineering history would say otherwise. Where a concept is needed you have

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-08 Thread Thomas Beale
On 08/12/2010 15:26, pablo pazos wrote: May be if we change the terminology to GUI Templates and openEHR Templates, we will not have these problems. I think the only thing in common of those two type of template is that they reference a set of archetypes to do something. * * I would

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-08 Thread pablo pazos
/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/ppazos Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2010 15:41:11 + From: thomas.be...@oceaninformatics.com To: openehr-technical at openehr.org Subject: Re: GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs) On 08/12/2010 15:26, pablo pazos wrote

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-08 Thread Ian McNicoll
To: openehr-technical at openehr.org Subject: Re: GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs) On 08/12/2010 15:26, pablo pazos wrote: May be if we change the terminology to GUI Templates and openEHR Templates, we will not have these problems. I think the only thing in common of those

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-06 Thread Thomas Beale
On 06/12/2010 10:36, Olof Torgersson wrote: 5 dec 2010 kl. 18.04 skrev Thomas Beale: Returning to the original topic of what should go into a template, I would say that this statement supports that template should not contain GUI-directives, but that such information should go into a

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-06 Thread Tim Cook
On Mon, 2010-12-06 at 11:56 +0100, Olof Torgersson wrote: In the openEHR case there is a specific domain and also specifications (archetypes/templates) which you make the task easier than trying to do it generally Exactly, we have some researchers here doing exactly that work. I am

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-06 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Olof, I agree but I think there are some directives that are actually not purely GUI directives but which say something meaningful about the underlying information. For instance Koray's directive isCoreConcept (g): This is an abstract concept; but we can say that Core Concepts are real-world

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-05 Thread Thomas Beale
On 03/12/2010 22:04, David Moner wrote: Thanks Thomas. I will resume the reasoning that brought us here: in some cases templates will also be shared together with archetypes, then, in my opinion, they should not incorporate GUI related stuff and be only about data constraints. I would regard

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-05 Thread Tim Cook
Hi Tom, On Sun, 2010-12-05 at 12:28 +, Thomas Beale wrote: The current design of ADL 1.5 is that template ids will be declared in the data (since they are just like archetype ids) - see http://www.openehr.org/svn/specification/TRUNK/publishing/architecture/am/knowledge_id_system.pdf So

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-03 Thread Hong Yul Yang
2010 2:45 p.m. *To:* openehr-technical at openehr.org *Subject:* Re: GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs) On 02/12/2010 01:33, Tim Cook wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 00:50 +, Thomas Beale wrote: This is one of the most common uses of templates we are finding. So

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-03 Thread Pariya Kashfi
Dear Tim, Thank you for your response Could you please provide me with more detail about this? Would it need manual adjustment of any css/style file or would it be totally dynamic? Is it based on the templates, archetypes, or both? I am trying to summarize the answers from different

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-03 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 10:21 +0100, Pariya Kashfi wrote: Dear Tim, Thank you for your response Could you please provide me with more detail about this? Would it need manual adjustment of any css/style file or would it be totally dynamic? Well, you can generate dynamic UIs; but I really

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-03 Thread Pariya Kashfi
Hi, From your response, my understanding is that one can generate such a GUI in OSHIP, but is also needs manual adjustments to reach the ideal GUI design. I'm not sure if I understand your last phrase. Do you mean considering design guidelines while generating GUIs? Best Regards Pariya MSc;

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-03 Thread Tim Cook
On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 10:45 +0100, Pariya Kashfi wrote: I'm not sure if I understand your last phrase. Do you mean considering design guidelines while generating GUI Yes. -Tim On Dec 3, 2010, at 10:35 AM, Tim Cook wrote: On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 10:21 +0100, Pariya Kashfi

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-03 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Tim, I do tend to agree with you that GUI generation can be useful as a startpoint, but that most real-world applications will demand much a richer GUI that will need subsequent, manual intervention. There are 2 other areas where auto-GUI generation can be useful. One is in the area of

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-03 Thread pablo pazos
://twitter.com/ppazos From: Ian.McNicoll at oceaninformatics.com Date: Fri, 3 Dec 2010 10:17:57 + Subject: Re: GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs) To: timothywayne.cook at gmail.com; openehr-technical at openehr.org Hi Tim, I do tend to agree with you that GUI

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-03 Thread Thomas Beale
On 03/12/2010 21:01, David Moner wrote: #3. The templates you use should only restrict data entry. It should not filter existing data of the same structure. If it does; there goes interoperability. Along with the entire premise for the use of and purpose of archetypes. Interesting... If

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-03 Thread David Moner
Thanks Thomas. I will resume the reasoning that brought us here: in some cases templates will also be shared together with archetypes, then, in my opinion, they should not incorporate GUI related stuff and be only about data constraints. David 2010/12/3, Thomas Beale thomas.beale at

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-03 Thread Tim Cook
Hi Tom, On Fri, 2010-12-03 at 21:48 +, Thomas Beale wrote: the general idea has always been that data can always be interpreted by a receiver using just the archetypes declared in the data. I believe this will continue to be a reliable assumption into the future. So this begs the

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-02 Thread Olof Torgersson
I definitely agree with this separation into what you call structural and visualization templates. It would be really nice if the structural ones became a reality and were implemented into for instance the Java reference implementation. These were almost finished a couple of years ago and seem

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-02 Thread Thomas Beale
On 02/12/2010 01:33, Tim Cook wrote: On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 00:50 +, Thomas Beale wrote: This is one of the most common uses of templates we are finding. So somehow knowing the possible choices somehow affects the actual code in the field you are querying? in theory no, but it could

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-02 Thread Koray Atalag
-technical-bounces at openehr.org [mailto:openehr-technical-boun...@openehr.org] On Behalf Of Thomas Beale Sent: Thursday, 2 December 2010 2:45 p.m. To: openehr-technical at openehr.org Subject: Re: GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs) On 02/12/2010 01:33, Tim Cook wrote: On Thu

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-02 Thread pablo pazos
/in/pablopazosgutierrez Blog: http://informatica-medica.blogspot.com/ Twitter: http://twitter.com/ppazos Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2010 13:24:20 +0100 Subject: GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs) From: erik.sundv...@liu.se To: openehr-technical at openehr.org CC: lincoln.moura

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-02 Thread David Moner
2010/12/2, Tim Cook Hmmm,I am very interested in hearing about a use case where these templates are 'needed' to 'fully interpret' the data. Thanks, Tim Maybe I do not have the knowledge to give a valid clinical example but it is reasonable to think that constraining an archetype in the way

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-02 Thread Tim Cook
Hi David, Thanks for the reply. On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 22:54 +0100, David Moner wrote: Maybe I do not have the knowledge to give a valid clinical example but it is reasonable to think that constraining an archetype in the way a template does can influence the interpretation of the data. What

Developing usable GUIs

2010-12-01 Thread Ian McNicoll
://www.openehr.org/wiki/download/attachments/18284548/new.png For more information please visit the wiki page: http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/projects/Developing+usable+GUIs+using+openEHR+implementations Best Regards Pariya MSc; PhD Candidate Department of Computing ?Science and Engineering

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-01 Thread Diego Boscá
There's also an opensource project called EHRFlex, which is an archetype-based clinical registry system (EHR) independent of a particular reference model. It uses clinical archetypes as guidelines for the automatic generation of web interfaces, oriented to a clinical use and data introduction.

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-01 Thread Ian McNicoll
Thanks Eric, This is an excellent suggestion. With respect to ADL 1.5, the operational template is, I think, the key artefact. It is the 'close to run-time' data definition, and can act as the start point for a great deal of downstream tooling support. It would be interesting t know how readily

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-01 Thread Olof Torgersson
Hi, When it comes to templates, what I would like to see is that they are finalized and become a part of standard implementations such as the Java reference model. This is something I've been waiting for since I first viewed this list a couple of years ago. Then, as a next step one could

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-01 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Olof, I agree this is a significant missing piece of the reference model and I am not sure how close the overall ADL 1.5 spec is to being finalised but the operational template definition appears to be very stable and can act as a reference point for coalescing various local template

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-01 Thread Tim Cook
IMO templates are an implementation specific issue and should not be part of the reference model. Archetypes that express a concept as a maximal dataset are sufficient for interoperability. Local templates are just that; local templates. Certain implementations may share templates between

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-01 Thread info
I am happy to read this opinion and I do fully agree on this. This makes it possible to use templates for any purpose desired. I already had thought of some template enrichments which work with CSS. Now that there is template parsing software in Java, I am thinking of further

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-01 Thread Thomas Beale
Yes and no... we used to think that templates would be only local, but it is now clear that governments want a way to standardise whole data-sets, which is what an (ADL 1.5) template is - effectively an archetype that grabs bits of other archetypes and puts them together to create a specific

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-01 Thread Thomas Beale
Well we are pretty close with ADL 1.5, and I would expect that the Java project could safely start implementing what is in the current draft of ADL 1.5 and the Template document. So, hopefully not too many months now. - thomas On 01/12/2010 17:19, Olof Torgersson wrote: Hi, When it comes

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-01 Thread Ian McNicoll
Hi Thomas, It is not just governments who will want to use templates to define agreed minimum datasets. At present all decent attempts at interoperability are essentially project-driven and often quite local e.g. Diabetes shared care dataset, Palliative care message, Emergency care summary. The

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-01 Thread David Moner
We had a similar discussion at the EN13606 web page. These are the conclussions I got. We should distinguish two types of templates: - Structural templates (specific use). Artefacts that constrain archetypes for specific uses or aggregate them in order to build more complex structures. These are

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-01 Thread Tim Cook
On Wed, 2010-12-01 at 23:04 +0100, David Moner wrote: The important here is to distinguish ?specific use? from ?local use?. In my mind, a specific use is to define a use case where only a part of the archetypes or several archetypes are used. This is related to data structures. For example, to

GUI-directives/hints again (Was: Developing usable GUIs)

2010-12-01 Thread Tim Cook
On Thu, 2010-12-02 at 00:50 +, Thomas Beale wrote: Tim, if someone designs a template that has say a more limited set of Snomed or other codes on a field than the original archetypes had, then querying the data may be enabled with the template at hand, since it would tell you what

Developing usable GUIs

2010-12-01 Thread Pariya Kashfi
://www.openehr.org/wiki/download/attachments/18284548/new.png For more information please visit the wiki page: http://www.openehr.org/wiki/display/projects/Developing+usable+GUIs+using+openEHR+implementations Best Regards Pariya MSc; PhD Candidate Department of Computing Science and Engineering Chalmers