Facilitating Adaptation in Virtual Environments Using a Context-Aware Model-Based Design Process

Abstract

Abstract. Designers and developers of virtual environments have to consider that providing adaptation in virtual environments is important to comply with users' different characteristics. Due to the many possibilities of adaptation that a designer can think of, it is necessary to support the integration of adaptation in the application in a rapid and practical way. We propose to achieve this by adopting the VR-DeMo model-based user interface design (MBUID) process which supports context. In this paper, we strive to integrate adaptation in virtual environments using a context-aware design process and present a validation of this approach with two case studies, namely supporting the adaptation of switching between interaction techniques and adapting the interaction technique itself. These case studies learned us that adaptation can be easily realized using our context-aware model-based design process.

Beyond Responsive Design: Context-Dependent Multimodal Augmentation of Web Applications

“…The event is something happening at a given time, the condition (optional) is a constraint to be satisfied, and the action describes how the application should change in order to perform the requested adaptation. A similar language for adaptation rules was used in [16] in an approach that supported adaptation as well, but without considering multimodality. Multimodal adaptation was tackled by the GUIDE project as well [4].…”

Generation of Multi-Device Adaptive MultiModal Web Applications

“…However, FAME's objective is just to guide the development of adaptive multimodal applications, but it does not provide support for automatic application development, as in our case. Octavia et al [9] describe an approach to design context-aware application using a model-based design process, but they do not address multimodal adaptation. The model-based approach is considered also in [12] for its flexibility.…”

Adaptive User Interfaces for Smart Environments with the Support of Model-Based Languages

“…Octavia et al [12] have considered the use of a model-based approach to facilitate adaptation in virtual environments, also using the event-condition-action paradigm, we provide a more general architecture for this purpose able to support adaptation involving various interaction modalities.…”