A New Approach for Multi-device User Interface Design

Author

Lu, Xudong ; Wan, Jiancheng ; Lu, Lei

Author_Institution

Shandong Univ., Jinan

fYear

2007

fDate

18-21 Sept. 2007

Firstpage

648

Lastpage

656

Abstract

A large number of heterogeneous and computing devices, such as PCs, PDAs, and cell phones, nowadays are used to access the same information. Currently, designers designing such multi-device user interfaces have to design a UI separately for each device, which is a time consuming and error prone activity. This paper discusses our approach to the multi-device interface development. We describe how abstract UI descriptions with FMP model. We also discuss how get adaptive presentational models for various devices with UI templates and UI design patterns help. Lastly, with code generate tool help, concrete user interfaces are generated.

Keywords

design; user interface management systems; FMP model; PC; PDA; cell phones; code generate tool; computing devices; concrete user interfaces; heterogeneous devices; multidevice interface development; multidevice user interface design; user interface description abstracting; Cellular phones; Computer interfaces; Computer networks; Computer science; Concrete; Concurrent computing; Parallel processing; Personal communication networks; Personal digital assistants; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Network and Parallel Computing Workshops, 2007. NPC Workshops. IFIP International Conference on

Conference_Location

Liaoning

Print_ISBN

978-0-7695-2943-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/NPC.2007.101

Filename

4351559