Meta-User Interfaces for Ambient Spaces

Coutaz, Joëlle

doi:10.1007/978-3-540-70816-2_1

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“…A meta-UI is an interactive system whose set of functions is necessary and sufficient to control and evaluate the state of an interactive ambient space [9]. This set is metabecause it serves as an umbrella beyond the domain-dependent services that support human activities in this space.…”

Section: Meta-uis To Keep Humans In the Loop At Run-timementioning

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Model-Driven Adaptation for Plastic User Interfaces

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Ganneau

Calvary

et al. 2007

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. User Interface (UI) plasticity denotes UI adaptation to the context of use (user, platform, physical and social environments) while preserving usability. In this article, we focus on the use of Model-Driven Engineering and demonstrate how the intrinsic flexibility of this approach can be exploited by designers for UI prototyping as well as by end-users in real settings. For doing so, the models developed at design-time, which convey high-level design decisions, are still available at run-time. As a result, an interactive system is not limited to a set of linked pieces of code, but is a graph of models that evolves, expresses and maintains multiple perspectives on the system from top-level tasks to the final UI. A simplified version of a Home Heating Control System is used to illustrate our approach and technical implementation.

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Section: Meta-uis To Keep Humans In the Loop At Run-timementioning

confidence: 99%

Model-Driven Adaptation for Plastic User Interfaces

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Ganneau

Calvary

et al. 2007

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…Other criteria could be used as well such as that of observability, predictability, traceability, and controllability. These issues are discussed in detail in [6] with the concept of meta-UI. Meta-UI's will allow users to build and control their own interactive spaces by coupling entities of many forms.…”

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“…In a different situation where the workstations were owned by two distinct users who wanted to collaborate via a unified space, the compatibility functions would be different resulting in a distinct final configuration. 6 is not compatible with that of c 6 and c 4 (coupling a private mouse with a public mouse to access any display area is considered as inappropriate for this particular situation). The same holds for c' 7 and c' 8 that result from the transitive closure with paths c 4 -c 7 and c 8 -c 2 respectively.…”

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Coupling Interaction Resources and Technical Support

Barralon

Coutaz

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2007

Universal Access in Human-Computer Interaction. Ambient Interaction

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Abstract.Coupling is the action of binding two entities so that they can operate together to provide new functions. In this article, we propose a formal definition for coupling and present a graph theoretic notation so that the side-effects of the creation of a coupling can be analyzed in a formal and systematic way. We then describe I-AM (Interaction Abstract Machine), a middleware that supports the dynamic coupling of interaction resources such as screens, keyboards and mice, to form a unified interactive space. Using our notation, we illustrate how couplings are supported in I-AM.

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“…In a nutshell, the components of a particular system at run-time can be a mix of generated and hand-coded highly tuned pieces of UI. By the way of a meta-UI [11], end-users can dynamically inform the adaptation process of their preferences. To summarize, our approach to the problem of UI plasticity brings together MDE (Model Driven Engineering) and SOA (Service Oriented Approach) within a unified framework that covers both the development stage and the run-time phase of interactive systems.…”

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A Model-Driven Engineering Approach for the Usability of Plastic User Interfaces

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Calvary

Coutaz

et al. 2008

Engineering Interactive Systems

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Abstract. Plastic User Interfaces (UI) are able to adapt to their context of use while preserving usability. Research efforts have focused so far, on the functional aspect of UI adaptation, while neglecting the usability dimension. This paper investigates how the notion of mapping as promoted by Model Driven Engineering (MDE), can be exploited to control UI adaptation according to explicit usability criteria. In our approach, a run-time UI is a graph of models related by mappings. Each model (e.g., the task model, the Abstract UI, the Concrete UI, and the final UI) describes the UI from a specific perspective from high-level design decisions (conveyed by the task model) to low-level executable code (i.e. the final UI). A mapping between source and target models specifies the usability properties that are preserved when transforming source models into target models. This article presents a meta-model for the notion of mapping and shows how it is applied to plastic UIs.

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Meta-User Interfaces for Ambient Spaces

Cited by 38 publications

References 30 publications

Model-Driven Adaptation for Plastic User Interfaces

Model-Driven Adaptation for Plastic User Interfaces

Coupling Interaction Resources and Technical Support

A Model-Driven Engineering Approach for the Usability of Plastic User Interfaces

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