In the Octopus each user has a single PC in the network that is used to run applications. Any machine in the Internet can be used as a user s terminal to access the Octopus, which means that the latency between the user interface devices and the central system may be utterly high. Multiple machines are used as terminals, simultaneously. We have devel­ oped a unique user interface file system fo...

• Dynamic adaptation of the UI mashup » Adaptive layout, UIC reconfiguration and exchange • User Interface Services (UIS) provide UI components and resources, like images, styles, libraries • User Interface Components (UIC) are client-side, reusable and configurable web UI parts with a generic JavaScript interface • Classification and description by UISDL • Registry manages UISDL instances U I ...

Due to the diversity of display capabilities and input devices, mobile computing gadgets have caused a dramatic increase in the development effort of interactive services. User interface UI tailoring and multi platform access represent two promising concepts for coping with this challenge. The article presents a hybrid approach to the generation of adaptive UIs based on a linking strategy of hi...

The paper describes TACTICS, the model and a modelbased tool capable of supporting a wide range of design decisions and providing assistance in the design process. The TACTICS tool automatically generates a user interface for an application and assists in refining it and in detecting and resolving design inconsistencies. The TACTICS model of human-computer interaction integrates a compositional...

User interfaces that display dynamic information have the ability to influence decision makers in networked settings where many individuals collaborate. To understand how varying levels of information support affects behavior (cooperation vs. defection) in a social dilemma, a user interface (UI) was developed and an online experiment ( N = 901) was conducted based on the iterated Diner ’s Dilem...

User interface (UI) adaptation is applied when a single UI design might not be adequate for maintaining usability in multiple contexts-of-use that can vary according to the user, platform, and environment. Fully-automated UI generation techniques have been criticized for not matching the ingenuity of human designers and manual UI adaptation has also been criticized for being time consuming espe...

Application softwares usually support a single set of user interaction tools that are supposed to be optimal. It is satisfactory if the user interface (UI) is really optimal for everyone. However, since the user’s intent and the preference vary one by one, such fixed toolkits may cause inefficiency of the UI. For example, if you are performing physical simulation and trying to generate particul...

The Conferencing Information Service {CIS} described in this paper is developed to provide reliable information to users about ongoing computer conferences throughout the Internet. CIS is composed of three major components: The Information Daemon {ID ), to store and retrieve information about the ongoing conferences in the Internet; The Conference Announcer {CA}, to broadcast conference informa...

A modern mobile phone supports many features: voice and data calls, text messaging, phonebook, calendar, WAP browsing, games, etc. All these features are packaged into a handset with a small display and a special purpose keypad. The limited user interface and the intertwining of logically separate features cause problems in the development of the UI software for mobile phones. In this paper, we...

Recently, the user interface (UI) has become more important because devices have become complex and give us excessive information. In this study, we investigated “what users learn” through information search training. We tested the hypothesis that graphical UI users would acquire perceptual knowledge (the knowledge of the visual features of the display) rather than structural knowledge (the kno...