Dygimes: Dynamically Generating Interfaces for Mobile Computing Devices and Embedded Systems

Coninx, Karin; Luyten, Kris; Vandervelpen, Chris; Bergh, Jan Van den; Creemers, Bert

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-45233-1_19

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“…Based on MDE, UI adaptation has been firstly tackled during design time to face the increasing number of platforms (e.g., Dygmes [11], TERESA [19] and Florins et al. [15]).…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Combining aspect-oriented modeling with property-based reasoning to improve user interface adaptation

Blouin

Morin

Beaudoux

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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User interface adaptations can be performed at runtime to dynamically reflect any change of context. Complex user interfaces and contexts can lead to the combinatorial explosion of the number of possible adaptations. Thus, dynamic adaptations come across the issue of adapting user interfaces in a reasonable time-slot with limited resources. In this paper, we propose to combine aspect-oriented modeling with property-based reasoning to tame complex and dynamic user interfaces. At runtime and in a limited time-slot, this combination enables efficient reasoning on the current context and on the available user interface components to provide a well suited adaptation. The proposed approach has been evaluated through EnTiMid, a middleware for home automation.

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“…Based on MDE, UI adaptation has been firstly tackled during design time to face the increasing number of platforms (e.g., Dygmes [11], TERESA [19] and Florins et al. [15]).…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Combining aspect-oriented modeling with property-based reasoning to improve user interface adaptation

Blouin

Morin

Beaudoux

et al. 2011

Proceedings of the 3rd ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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“…DYNAmic MOdel-bAsed user Interface Development (DynaMo-AID) is a design process and runtime architecture for devising context-aware UIs and is part of the Dygimes UI framework [Coninx et al 2003]. Its runtime architecture includes three major modules namely context monitoring, functional core, and presentation that are linked by a dialog controller [Clerckx et al 2005].…”

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confidence: 99%

Adaptive Model-Driven User Interface Development Systems

2014

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Adaptive user interfaces (UIs) were introduced to address some of the usability problems that plague many software applications. Model-driven engineering formed the basis for most of the systems targeting the development of such UIs. An overview of these systems is presented and a set of criteria is established to evaluate the strengths and shortcomings of the state-of-the-art, which is categorized under architectures, techniques, and tools. A summary of the evaluation is presented in tables that visually illustrate the fulfillment of each criterion by each system. The evaluation identified several gaps in the existing art and highlighted the areas of promising improvement. The user interface (UI) layer is considered one of the key components of software applications since it connects their end-users to the functionality. Well-engineered and robust software applications could eventually fail to be adopted due to a weak UI layer. Some user interface development techniques such as: universal design [Mace et al. 1990], inclusive design [Keates et al. 2000], and design for all [Stephanidis 1997] promote the concept of making one UI design fit as many people as possible. Yet, a UI is not independent from its context-of-use, which is defined in terms of the user, platform, and environment [Calvary et al. 2003]. The "one design fits all" approach is unable to accommodate all the cases of variability in the context-of-use, in many cases leading to a diminished user experience. Building multiple UIs for the same functionality due to context variability is difficult since the scope of variability cannot be completely known at design-time and there is a high cost incurred by manually developing multiple versions of the UI. Adaptive UIs have been promoted as a solution for context variability due to their ability to automatically adapt to the context-of-use at runtime. User interfaces capable of adapting to their context-of-use are also referred to as multi-context or multi-target [Fonseca 2010]. A key goal behind adaptive UIs is plasticity denoting a UI's ability to preserve its usability across multiple contexts-of-use [Coutaz 2010]. Norcio and Stanley [1989] consider that the idea of an adaptive UI is straightforward since it simply means that: "The interface should adapt to the user; rather than the user adapting to the system" (p. 399) but they note that in spite of the simplicity of the definition, there are some difficult and complex problems relating to adaptive UIs. In our study of the literature, we noticed that some of these problems are technical and are related to devising systems that can support the development of adaptive UIs, while others are related to human factors such as the end-user acceptance of these UIs. Realizing the abstract properties illustrated in Fig. 1, could help in handling some of the technical and human problems related to adaptive UIs. Salehie and Tahvildari [2009] present a hierarchy of adaptability properties for software systems, referred to as self-* properties. This hierarchy demon...

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“…Until now, most prototypical applications for semantic driven UI rendering focus on form based applications (e. g. [5,4,2]). We propose to extend this technique so that it supports even the design of interfaces for location based games.…”

Section: The User's Devicementioning

confidence: 99%

Using semantic descriptions for adaptive mobile games UIs

Bihler¹,

Mügge²,

Schmatz³

et al. 2009

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction With Mobile Devices and Services

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Mobile devices became powerful recently and wireless Internet access is becoming standard. One important class of networked, mobile applications are location based games, making extensive use of device sensors to adapt their application logic and user interface to the numerous, spontaneous and fast changing contexts. To simplify the developers' task of designing adaptable user interfaces, we propose the use of semantic user interface description. By going beyond formbased applications, we argue that the approach comes especially at hand when used in the context of modular reconfigurable mobile games: The interfaces fusion can simplify the generation of complex adaptable game UIs and form an integral aspect of a mobile game development kit.

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Dygimes: Dynamically Generating Interfaces for Mobile Computing Devices and Embedded Systems

Cited by 45 publications

References 10 publications

Combining aspect-oriented modeling with property-based reasoning to improve user interface adaptation

Combining aspect-oriented modeling with property-based reasoning to improve user interface adaptation

Adaptive Model-Driven User Interface Development Systems

Using semantic descriptions for adaptive mobile games UIs

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