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A model-based approach for distributed user interfaces

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A model-based approach for distributed user interfaces
This 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 state-transition diagram whose states represent significant distribution states of a DUI and whose transitions are labeled by an ...
Jérémie Melchior, Jean Vanderdonckt,
Added 27 Aug 2011
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Type Journal
Year 2011
Where EICS
Authors Jérémie Melchior, Jean Vanderdonckt, Peter Van Roy
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