We propose a software toolkit for developing complex web-based user interfaces, incorporating such things as multi-user facilities, virtual environments (VEs), and interface agents. The toolkit is based on a novel software architecture that combines ideas from multi-agent platforms and user interface (UI) architectures. It provides a distributed shared database with publish-subscribe facilities...

UI generation stylesheet Abstract UI to XHTML stylesheet Abstract UI description XHTML [Java ME] Apache Cocoon framework OWL-S description Service User Interface Annotation description Abstract widget type modelwidget type model Abstract parameter type modelparameter type model Figure 2. The Pervasive Service Interaction (Perci) framework architecture. Perci provides for integrated interaction ...

Model-based approaches to user interface (UI) design typically focus on creating mappings between concrete features of the user interface design and abstract models of the tasks, users, and domain. Earlier research in this area has focused on widget selection, since this was considered to be the least complicated mapping to investigate. We take this work a step further, showing how the navigati...

It has been shown that the major effort spent on the design and implementation of the system software for pervasive devices (or handset device such as cellular phone) is the user interfaces (UI) . If UI can be developed in a short time, it can be a great help to reduce development time for application software system. Therefore, many researchers in software engineering area have been seeking be...

Mobile computing offers the possibility of dramatically expanding the versatility of computers, by bringing them off the desktop and into new and unique contexts. However, this newfound versatility poses difficult challenges for user-interface designers. We propose three modelbased techniques that will aid UI designers who are working in the domain of mobile computing. These techniques will all...

With the tremendous growth in mobile phones, application development is an important emerging arena. Moreover, various applications fail to serve purpose of getting attention intended users, which determined by their User Interface (UI) and Experience (UX). As a result, developers often find it challenging meet users’ expectations. To date, several reviews have been carried out explored aspects...

In typical calibration system based on ASAM (Association for Standardization of Automation and Measuring Systems) standard architecture, because UI (User Interface) is integrated together with other function layers of calibration system, the requirement of reconstructing UI according to upgrading or changing of the ECUs (Electronic Control Unit) can not be met. So the architecture is strong cou...

Simulative case-based training systems in medicine should enable the user to act as a real doctor treating a real patient. This leads to a higher complexity of the user interface (UI), which in turn leads to a higher effort for the user to learn the handling of the UI. In this paper, we present how the adaptive help agent in the training system d3web.Train uses learner modelling to decide wheth...

In traditional graphical user interfaces, the majority of UI elements are hidden to the user in the default view. Application designers and users desire more space for their application data and thus want to minimize the user interface footprint. We explore the benefits of dedicating additional screen space for presenting an alternative visualization of an application’s user interface. Some pot...