Human-Centered Engineering Of Interactive Systems With The User Interface Markup Language

Helms, James; Schaefer, Robbie; Luyten, Kris; Vermeulen, Jo; Abrams, Marc D.; Coyette, Adrien; Vanderdonckt, Jean

doi:10.1007/978-1-84800-907-3_7

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“…Several of the Interface Models in SHDM, e.g., the Abstract Interface and the Concrete, have counterparts in the many proposed models, e.g., Maria [14], UsiXML [10] UIML [8], among many, as well as those in WebML [6]. Space reasons prevent us from making a , but none have interface-specific models beyond HTML.…”

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MIRA: A Model-Driven Framework for Semantic Interfaces for Web Applications

Bertti

Schwabe

2016

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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Abstract. A currently recognized barrier for the wider adoption and dissemination of Semantic Web technologies is the absence of suitable interfaces and tools to allow suitable access by end-users. In a wider context, it has also been recognized that modern day interfaces must deal with a large number of heterogeneity factors, such as varying user profiles and runtime hardware and software platforms. This paper presents MIRA, a framework for defining and implementing Semantic Interfaces for Web applications, including those on the Semantic Web. A Semantic Interface is defined as being one capable of understanding and adapting to the data it presents and captures, and its schema, if present. Moreover, the interface must also be able to adapt to its context of usethe device being used, any available information about its user, network conditions, and so on. Using a model-driven approach, MIRA allows developers to define such interfaces, and generates code that can run on clients, servers or both. We have carried out a qualitative evaluation that shows that MIRA does indeed provide a better process for developers, without imposing any significant performance overhead.

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Section: Discussion and Ongoing Workmentioning

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MIRA: A Model-Driven Framework for Semantic Interfaces for Web Applications

Bertti

Schwabe

2016

Lecture Notes in Computer Science

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“…While Paternò and Meixner refer to the semantics of user interfaces, we consider the semantics of the interaction itself and identified three concrete components, or dimensions, of the interaction semantics that we detailed in Section 4.2. With respect to the concrete interaction abstraction categories, our language is related to the Dialog and Interface Specification Language (DISL) [8] and to XForms 7 . DISL proposes eight basic widgets for user interaction (variablefield , textfield , etc.).…”

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User interfaces for smart things -- A generative approach with semantic interaction descriptions

Mayer

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ACM Trans. Comput.-Hum. Interact.

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With ever more everyday objects becoming "smart" due to embedded processors and communication capabilities, the provisioning of intuitive user interfaces to control smart things is quickly gaining importance. We present a model-based interface description scheme that enables automatic, modality-independent user interface generation. User interface description languages based on our approach carry enough information to suggest intuitive interfaces while still being easily producible for developers. This is enabled by describing the atomic interactive components of a device and capturing the semantics of interactions with the device. We propose a taxonomy of abstract sensing and actuation primitives and present a smartphone application that can act as a ubiquitous device controller. An evaluation of the mobile application in a laboratory setup, home environments, and an educational setting as well as the results of a user study highlight the accessibility of the proposed scheme for application developers and its suitability for controlling smart devices.

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“…As a result, alternative user interface development methods have emerged making use of abstract notations and mark-up languages -typically dialects of XML -to facilitate mapping of abstract components to platformspecific toolkit libraries by delegating the display to a platformspecific renderer [16]. This latter approach is followed by UIML [14], AUIML [4], XIML [12] and many other similar efforts.…”

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Managing non-native widgets in model-based UI engineering

Kotsalis

2009

Proceedings of the 1st ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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This paper sets out to describe on-going research and development activities aiming to provide new insights to building advanced user interfaces by assembling diverse widgets. To this end, we draw upon the relative merits and drawbacks of the two dominant approaches for developing interactive applications, namely toolkit programming and model-based user interface engineering. We motivate the problem by considering a simple example representative of what toolkit programming may deliver and then contrast its implications on prevailing model-based UI principles and practice. Our analysis reveals the key role of widget abstraction in developing specification-based tools to manage radically different widget sets in a uniform manner. The ultimate goal of this work is to extend MBUI engineering approaches so as to enable them to take account of richer interaction vocabularies becoming increasingly available.

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Human-Centered Engineering Of Interactive Systems With The User Interface Markup Language

Cited by 18 publications

References 7 publications

MIRA: A Model-Driven Framework for Semantic Interfaces for Web Applications

MIRA: A Model-Driven Framework for Semantic Interfaces for Web Applications

User interfaces for smart things -- A generative approach with semantic interaction descriptions

Managing non-native widgets in model-based UI engineering

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