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PVSio-web is a graphical environment for facilitating the design and evaluation of interactive (human-computer) systems. Using PVSio-web, one can generate and evaluate realistic interactive prototypes from formal models. PVSio-web has been successfully used for analyzing commercial, safety-critical medical devices. It has been used to create training material for device developers and device users. It has also been used for medical device design, by both formal methods experts and non-technical end users.

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Featured videos

Design issues in medical user interfaces.

Paolo Masci, Researcher at INESC TEC / Universidade do Minho, has used PVSio-web to create this video for hospitals, device manufacturers, and regulators, to raise awareness about general user interface software issues.


Integrated Clinical Environment (ICE) Prototype.

Piergiuseppe Mallozzi, student at University of Pisa, Italy, has created this video to show how the PVSio-web co-simulation engine can be used to explore prototypes for next-generation interoperable medical devices.

Featured demos

Radical7 patient monitor prototype.

Generic Patient Controlled Analgesia (GPCA) pump prototype.

BBraun Infusomat Space.

AlarisGP infusion pump prototype.

Publications


Tool papers

  1. ``PVSio-web 2.0: Joining PVS to HCI.'' P. Masci, P. Oladimeji, Y. Zhang, P. Jones, P. Curzon, H. Thimbleby. Proceedings of 27th International Conference on Computer Aided Verification (CAV2015). California, USA, 2015. [PDF] [BibTeX]
  2. ``PVSio-web: a tool for rapid prototyping device user interfaces in PVS.'' Patrick Oladimeji, Paolo Masci, Paul Curzon and Harold Thimbleby. Proceedings of the 5th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Interactive Systems (FMIS 2013). London, UK, 2013. [PDF] [BibTeX]

Verification

  1. ``Verification of User Interface Software: the Example of Use-Related Safety Requirements and Programmable Medical Devices..'' M.D. Harrison, P. Masci P, J.C. Campos, P. Curzon IEEE Transactions on Human-Machine Systems (in press) 2017 [PDF]
  2. ``The benefits of formalising design guidelines: A case study on the predictability of drug infusion pumps.'' P. Masci, R. Rukšėnas, P. Oladimeji, A. Cauchi, A. Gimblett, Y. Li, P. Curzon, H. Thimbleby. In Innovations in Systems and Software Engineering, Vol 11(2), Springer-Verlag. London, 2015. [PDF] [BibTeX]
  3. ``Verification of interactive software for medical devices: PCA infusion pumps and FDA regulation as an example.'' P. Masci, A. Ayoub, P. Curzon, M.D. Harrison, I. Lee, H. Thimbleby. In Proceedings of 5th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems (EICS2013) London, UK, 2013. [PDF] [BibTeX]
  4. ``On formalising interactive number entry on infusion pumps.'' P. Masci, R. Rukšėnas, P. Oladimeji, A. Cauchi, A. Gimblett, Y. Li, P. Curzon, H. Thimbleby. In 4th International Workshop on Formal Methods for Interactive Systems (FMIS2011). Limerick, Ireland, 2011. [PDF] [BibTeX]

Prototyping

  1. ``Evaluation of formal IDEs for human-machine interface design and analysis: the case of CIRCUS and PVSio-web.'' C. Fayollas, C. Martinie, P. Palanque, P. Masci, M.D. Harrison, J.C. Campos, S.R. Silva In Proceedings of 3rd Workshop on Integrated Formal Development Environment (F-IDE 2016), co-located with FM2016. Limassol, Cyprus, 2016. [PDF]
  2. ``Using PVSio-web to demonstrate software issues in medical user interfaces.'' P. Masci, P. Oladimeji, P. Curzon and H. Thimbleby. In 4th International Symposium on Foundations of Healthcare Information Engineering and Systems (FHIES2014) - Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS), volume 9062, 2017 Washington DC, USA, 2014. [PDF]
  3. ``Formal Verification of Medical Device User Interfaces Using PVS.'' P. Masci, Y. Zhang, P. Jones, P. Curzon, H. Thimbleby. In FASE2014, 17th Intl. Conf. on Fundamental Approaches to Software Engineering, pp 200-2014, Vol 8411, Springer-Verlag. Grenoble, France, 2014. [PDF] [BibTeX]

Co-Simulation

  1. ``A PVS-Simulink Integrated Environment for Model-Based Analysis of Cyber-Physical Systems.'' C. Bernardeschi C, A. Domenici, P. Masci IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering (in press) 2017 [PDF]
  2. ``PVSio-web: mathematically based tool support for the design of interactive and interoperable medical systems.'' P. Masci, P. Oladimeji, P. Mallozzi, P. Curzon, H. Thimbleby. In Proceedings of the 5th EAI International Conference on Wireless Mobile Communication and Healthcare, pp 42-45, ICST (Institute for Computer Sciences, Social-Informatics and Telecommunications Engineering) London, 2015. [PDF] [BibTeX]
  3. ``Combining PVSio with Stateflow.'' P. Masci, Y. Zhang, P. Jones, P. Oladimeji, E. D'Urso, C. Bernardeschi, P. Curzon and H. Thimbleby. In 6th NASA Formal Methods Symposium (NFM2014). Houston, TX, 2014. [PDF] [BibTeX]

Code Generation

  1. ``Extending a user interface prototyping tool with automatic MISRA-C code generation.'' G. Mauro, H. Thimbleby, A. Domenici, C. Bernardeschi. 3rd Workshop on Formal Integrated Development Environment (F-IDE), satellite workshop of Formal Methods 2016, Electronic Proceedings in Theoretical Computer Science (EPTCS). 2016. Limassol, Cyprus, 2016. [PDF] [BibTeX]
  2. ``Model-based development of the Generic PCA infusion pump user interface prototype in PVS.'' P. Masci, A. Ayoub, P. Curzon, I. Lee, O. Sokolsky, H. Thimbleby. In Safecomp2013, 32nd Intl. Conference on Computer Safety, Reliability and Security. Toulouse, France 2013. [PDF] [BibTeX]

Thesis

Verification tools supported by PVSio-web


  • PVS
  • IVY
  • NuSMV
  • NuXMV
  • VDM/Overture
  • Mathworks/Simulink
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