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

Ghiani, Giuseppe; Manca, Marco; Paternò, Fabio

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-10359-4_6

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“…Although different kind of systems can be found next to the adjective "contextaware", the process of embedding contextual awareness can be dramatically different depending on the system type. For example, it is not the same to implement it in: a smart-phone application, a robot, a ubiquitous system or a web application [57], a context-aware animal species recognition [58], or an adaptive e-book [59], etc. Typically, context-awareness is a feature added on top of an existing system or functionality.…”

Section: Diverse and Specific Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engineering context-aware systems and applications: A survey

Alegre

Augusto

Clark

2016

Journal of Systems and Software

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Context-awareness is an essential component of systems developed in areas like Intelligent Environments, Pervasive & Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. In these emerging fields, there is a need for computerized systems to have a higher understanding of the situations in which to provide services or functionalities, to adapt accordingly. The literature shows that researchers modify existing engineering methods in order to better fit the needs of context-aware computing. These efforts are typically disconnected from each other and generally focus on solving specific development issues. We encourage the creation of a more holistic and unified engineering process that is tailored for the demands of these systems. For this purpose, we study the state-of-the-art in the development of context-aware systems, focusing on: A) Methodologies for developing context-aware systems, analysing the reasons behind their lack of adoption and features that the community wish they can use; B) Context-aware system engineering challenges and techniques applied during the most common development stages; C) Context-aware systems conceptualization.

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Section: Diverse and Specific Systemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Engineering context-aware systems and applications: A survey

Alegre

Augusto

Clark

2016

Journal of Systems and Software

176

137

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“…These languages can also be used to generate user interfaces in runtime. For instance Ghiani et al (2014) present a system that transforms web pages to MARIA by means of machine learning techniques and subsequently it tailors them to the user.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

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Adapting the Web for People With Upper Body Motor Impairments Using Touch Screen Tablets

Valencia

Pérez

Arrue

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Interacting With Computers

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People with disabilities frequently use the Internet to perform a variety of common activities; however, they may often encounter aggravated accessibility barriers when using mobile devices to access the Web. In order to alleviate the problems faced by this group when using mobile devices, we have extended a previously developed transcoding-based system that adapts nonaccessible web pages to the needs of specific users in order to enhance their accessibility. In this version, we included new adaptation techniques gathered from the literature in order to apply transcoding techniques to mobile devices. The enhanced system was evaluated with eight users with reduced mobility using tablets. The exploratory study suggests that alternative interaction methods such as the ones named 'end tap' and 'steady tap' are beneficial for some participants with reduced mobility, dexterity or strength in the upper limbs. Other results show that six of the eight users preferred the adapted version with enlarged interaction elements which required less physical effort, even if this adaptation increases the size of the page with the disadvantages associated with such a change. RESEARCH HIGHLIGHTS• Introduction and evaluation of a web transcoding system that adapts web pages for people with motor impairments who use touch screen devices.• Tagging the target websites with an extension of the WAI-ARIA mark-up language enabling web transcoding.• From the evaluation, transcoded pages were revealed to be the preferred option for most of the participants, as they require less physical effort.• Participants were classified in function of the type and size of finger movement for target selection on touch screen devices, in order to evaluate the performance of diverse alternative interaction methods or gestures.• Alternative interaction methods were tested by motor impaired users: 'end tap' and 'steady tap' proved to be helpful for people with less finger movement control.

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“…For this purpose, the user model manager receives user-related information from the peripherals (such as the eye tracker, the brain waves biosensor, etc.). Such data is actually sent to the user model manager by dedicated pieces of software, which is connected to the peripherals, elaborates the data and sends them few times per second to the user model manager (4). When one or more of the subscribed events and conditions occur, the user model manager notifies the adaptation engine (5).…”

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“…Context-dependent adaptation of Web applications is tackled by previous work, for example in [4] automatic multimodal adaptation is provided for mobile users through the use of a model-based framework. However, the diverse contextual aspects considered were mostly related to the environment (e.g.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Dynamic user interface adaptation driven by physiological parameters to support learning

Ghiani

Manca

Paternò

2015

Proceedings of the 7th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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Technology to make physiological measurements related to attention and cognitive load is becoming more affordable. We propose a solution based on combining the exploitation of dynamic user information gathered through such technology with a rule-based strategy for adaptation of elearning Web applications. We focus on users' physiological data and aspects relevant for the task being carried out. A flexible rule-based approach allows designers and developers to define a wide range of rule compositions to express changes in the user interface based on how the user feels and behaves. The overall goal of the framework is to serve as a tool for content developers of Web applications, such as operators of online Learning Management Systems, and for their end-users. In this domain, through our approach teachers can create their educational contents, and specify how they should dynamically adapt to students' behaviour in order to improve the learning process.

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

Cited by 19 publications

References 18 publications

Engineering context-aware systems and applications: A survey

Engineering context-aware systems and applications: A survey

Adapting the Web for People With Upper Body Motor Impairments Using Touch Screen Tablets

Dynamic user interface adaptation driven by physiological parameters to support learning

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