Model-Based Engineering of Multi-platform, Synchronous and Collaborative UIs - Extending UsiXML for Polymorphic User Interface Specification

Vellis, George; Kotsalis, Dimitrios; Akoumianakis, Demosthenes; Vanderdonckt, Jean

doi:10.1109/pci.2012.27

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“…But like cross-compilers, the translation between models and native source code is difficult to achieve, especially, if the solution providers want to manage any native component. On one hand, UsiXML (Vellis et al, 2012) and Jelly (Meskens et al, 2010) allow developers to produce user interface for multiple mobile platforms. On the other hand, MobiAmodeller (introduced by Balagtas-Fernandez et al, 2010) and AppliDE (Quinton et al, 2011), which are integrated in CAPucine (Parra et al, 2012), allow developers to produce a complete application and even a contextaware application.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Common Framework: A Hybrid Approach to Integrate Cross-Platform Components in Mobile Application

Perchat¹,

Desertot²,

Lecomte³

2014

Journal of Computer Science

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There is a multitude of mobile OS: iOS android, Windows Phone 8 and each OS provides its own standards and tools. This heterogeneity in the mobile domain forces developers to implement an application for each mobile platform. To achieve that, developers need to master several languages (Java, Objective-C…). They also need to have several devices at their disposal (PC, Mac, many smartphones …). Then, after applications distributions, developers have to maintain several source codes. In this study, we tackle this problematic. Our goal is to soften the differences between each OS in order to simplify the development of cross-platform third-party applications. To achieve that, we have defined a framework called COMMON (Component Oriented programming for Mobile Multi OsiNtegration). This framework allows the integration of cross-platform components in any application (iOS android). To run our components on any OS, we provide an implementation for each platform. However, to make their integrations easier, we also provide a common public interface of each component, which is platform-independent. Besides, we provide a common language, also platform-independent, allowing the integration and use of any component in any native application (iOS android). This language is based on annotations. Finally, we have implemented a cross-compiler, which translates the source code written with our language to native source code: Objective-C for iOS, Java for Android,… In this study, we have shown that our solution offers performance and memory consumption closed to native applications. Finally, with COMMON, mobile developers implement less lines of source code than with a native application. In your test application, we have saved 30%.

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Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Common Framework: A Hybrid Approach to Integrate Cross-Platform Components in Mobile Application

Perchat¹,

Desertot²,

Lecomte³

2014

Journal of Computer Science

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“…The existing run-time solutions can be divided into model-based, migratory or optimization approaches. Model-based approaches attempt to reduce the complexity of the CoU by abstracting it into models [11,12,13]. The models are structured with meta rules, defining the expected parameters.…”

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Adaptive Human-Machine-Interface of Automation Systems

Motlagh

Greil

2014

Technological Innovation for Collective Awareness Systems

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Part 7: Human-Computer InterfacesInternational audienceAutomation systems are inseparable part of everyday life; heating systems, ticket vending machines or blood glucose meters are few examples of such systems, showing the diversity of their application domain. This diversity implies the variety of different user groups with assorted capabilities interacting with such systems in different contexts. Hence, the requirements of the human-machine interfaces of such systems are strongly varying, depending on the context of use. Attempts in developing high interactive systems, such as user centered development or universal design have failed; either they are costly or system specific. Furthermore, many context-relevant aspects are only known at run-time. In this paper, we propose a generic concept, which adapts the human-machine interfaces of automation systems at run-time, according to the context of use. It addresses not only the representational aspects but also the semantics and the connection to the underlying technical system. The concept is implemented as an evaluating prototype

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“…Even though Vellis and colleagues have recently proposed a model-based approach to UI development [27], as it extends UsiXML 2 for polymorphic UI specification, it focuses more on the development of the actual system than on early prototyping, thus failing to achieve the degree of designdevelopment balance we envision.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Uiskei++

Segura

Barbosa

2013

Proceedings of the 5th ACM SIGCHI Symposium on Engineering Interactive Computing Systems

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Low-fidelity prototyping is an inexpensive and quick alternative for exploring different design solutions. And with Wizard of Oz experiments, one can present an interactive -yet unfinished -prototype to the final user, who can see how the system is planned to work. Combining low-fidelity prototyping with Wizard of Oz can be a low cost and time-efficient way to prototype both the user interface and the interaction. This would be particularly useful in the case of prototyping for multiple devices, since different solutions need to be developed and tailored to suit each device's characteristics. This proposal discusses plans for developing a tool to provide multi-device prototyping support through the incorporation of different abstraction levels and support for Wizard of Oz experiments. Author Keywordssketch-based user interface design; model-based user interface design; low-fidelity prototyping; multi-device prototyping; Wizard of Oz;

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Model-Based Engineering of Multi-platform, Synchronous and Collaborative UIs - Extending UsiXML for Polymorphic User Interface Specification

Cited by 7 publications

References 17 publications

Common Framework: A Hybrid Approach to Integrate Cross-Platform Components in Mobile Application

Common Framework: A Hybrid Approach to Integrate Cross-Platform Components in Mobile Application

Adaptive Human-Machine-Interface of Automation Systems

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