Light-Weight Distributed Web Interfaces: Preparing the Web for Heterogeneous Environments

Vandervelpen, Chris; Vanderhulst, Geert; Luyten, Kris; Coninx, Karin

doi:10.1007/11531371_28

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“…Concerning DUI in conjunction with the WA and EUD fields, and as pointed out in [14], we can appreciate that it is not easy to provide DUI for existing and third party Web content, although some approaches have tackled isolated specific dimensions, specifically involving end-users. User-Driven DUI was previously defined in [15]; however, although this approach does not consider third-party existing Web sites as potential targets, other approaches do. For instance, [7] lets users to annotate some parts of exiting Web UI in order to migrate components under user demand.…”

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Flexible Distribution of Existing Web Interfaces: An Architecture Involving Developers and End-Users

Firmenich

Bosseti

Rossi

et al. 2016

Current Trends in Web Engineering

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OATAO is an open access repository that collects the work of Toulouse researchers and makes it freely available over the web where possible. Abstract. This paper presents a novel approach towards the opportunistic and lightweight distribution of existent Web User Interfaces. We describe an architecture that allows end-users to collect UI objects into a distributed UIComponent-oriented PIM, accessible from different user's devices. Once in the PIM, the collected UI components are wrapped with different DUI-based behaviours that may be triggered by the user, as PIM's objects plug-ins. We present an overview of the architecture; some default DUI-based behaviours are introduced and illustrated through examples. Besides, we show how the architecture supports the development of new DUI-based behaviours.

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Flexible Distribution of Existing Web Interfaces: An Architecture Involving Developers and End-Users

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Rossi

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Current Trends in Web Engineering

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“…If another user or platform comes in the context of use, it is hard to replicate or migrate on this platform the part that has already been transferred to the first smartphone. In Lightweight services [36], once a service has been selected, it can be distributed to any platform, existing or arriving, but a service can be distributed only once. On the one hand, this does not create any conflict, but on the other hand, it does not support replication.…”

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“…DUIs have been successfully used in various domains of human activity (e.g., ambient intelligence [22,23], clinical systems [5], economics [14]) and in computer science (e.g., migratory UIs [3,6,25,39], service-oriented architecture [36], ubiquitous computing [7]). DUIs are fundamental because several applications require the integration of distributed interaction devices as functional wholes.…”

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A model-based approach for distributed user interfaces

Melchior

Vanderdonckt

Roy

2011

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

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This paper describes a model-based approach for designing Distributed User Interfaces (DUIs), i.e., graphical user interfaces that are distributed along the following dimensions: end user, display device, computing platform, and physical environment. The three pillars of this model-based approach are: (i) a Concrete User Interface model for DUIs incorporating the distribution dimensions and expressing any DUI element in a XML-compliant format until the granularity of an individual DUI element is reached, (ii) a specification language for DUI distribution primitives that have been defined in a user interface toolkit, and (iii), a step wise method for modeling a DUI based on the concepts of a distribution graph expressing a distribution scenario that can be played, based on the distribution primitives. A distribution graph consists of a state-transition diagram whose states represent significant DUI distribution states and whose transitions are labeled by an Event-Condition-Action (ECA... ABSTRACTThis paper describes a model-based approach for designing distributed user interfaces (DUIs), i.e. graphical user interfaces that are distributed along one or many of the following dimensions: end user, display device, computing platform, and physical environment. The three pillars of this model-based approach are: (i) a Concrete User Interface model for DUIs incorporating the distribution dimensions and able to express in a XML-compliant format any DUI element until the granularity of an individual DUI element is reached, (ii) a specification language for DUI distribution primitives that have been defined in a user interface toolkit, and (iii), a step-wise method for modeling a DUI based on the concepts of distribution graph expressing a distribution scenario that can be played namely based on the distribution primitives. A distribution graph consists of a statetransition diagram whose states represent significant distribution states of a DUI and whose transitions are labeled by an even-condition-action representation. The actions involved in this format may call any distribution primitive of the DUI toolkit. In order to exemplify this model-based approach, two simple DUIs are first designed: a DUI for the Pictionary game and a DUI for the Minesweeper game. They are then incorporated into a larger DUI game of the goose where cells may trigger the two other games.

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“…This type of suppport for distributed user interfaces is required to deploy a user interface for an ambient intelligent environment. In Vandervelpen et al (2005) we show how conventional interactive websites can be distributed among different interaction resources with a minimum of effort required from the designer to prepare the website for distribution. This proves a structured high-level user interface description language (HTML in the case of the website) is the most suitable way to create distributable user interfaces.…”

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“…In Vandervelpen et al (2005) we showed a method that uses XHTML as the presentation language and a set of rules and a cost function to select the "preferred" distribution configuration among all possible configurations. The XHTML document was subdivided according the tasks it supported, and the different parts were distributed among the available devices in the neighborhood of the user.…”

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Designing distributed user interfaces for ambient intelligent environments using models and simulations

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Bergh

Vandervelpen

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Computers & Graphics

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There is a growing demand for design support to create interactive systems that are deployed in ambient intelligent environments. Unlike traditional interactive systems, the wide diversity of situations these type of user interfaces need to work in require tool-support that is close to the environment of the end-user on the one hand and provide a smooth integration with the application logic on the other hand. This paper shows how the Model-Based User Interface Development methodology can be applied for ambient intelligent environments; we propose a task-centered approach towards the design of interactive systems by means of appropriate visualizations and simulations of different models. Besides the use of these typical user interface models such as the task-and presentation-model to support interface design, we focus on user interfaces supporting situated task distributions and a visualization of context influences on deployed, possibly distributed, user interfaces. To enable this we introduce an environment model describing the device configuration at particular moment in time. To support the user interface designer while creating these complex interfaces for ambient intelligent environments, we discuss tool support using a visualization of the environment together with simulations of the user interface configurations. We also show how the concepts presented in the paper can be integrated within Model-Driven Engineering, hereby narrowing the gap between HCI design and software engineering.

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Light-Weight Distributed Web Interfaces: Preparing the Web for Heterogeneous Environments

Cited by 22 publications

References 5 publications

Flexible Distribution of Existing Web Interfaces: An Architecture Involving Developers and End-Users

Flexible Distribution of Existing Web Interfaces: An Architecture Involving Developers and End-Users

A model-based approach for distributed user interfaces

Designing distributed user interfaces for ambient intelligent environments using models and simulations

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