Mechanism for dynamic deployment of plastic mobile cross-platform user interfaces

New platforms and mobile devices are constantly coming to the market but, in an effort to attract more public, several manufacturers incorporate special features into their models, resulting in a lack of uniformity among them. Thus, devices present different processing, memory, storage, communicatio...

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Published in2011 8th International Conference on Electrical Engineering, Computing Science and Automatic Control pp. 1 - 5
Main Authors Giron, J. E., Mendoza, S., Torres-Huitzil, C.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 01.10.2011
Subjects
Context
context awareness
graphical models
Graphical user interfaces
Human Computer Interaction
Mobile communication
mobile computing
Mobile handsets
Performance evaluation
Plastics
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Summary:New platforms and mobile devices are constantly coming to the market but, in an effort to attract more public, several manufacturers incorporate special features into their models, resulting in a lack of uniformity among them. Thus, devices present different processing, memory, storage, communication and displaying capabilities. This heterogeneity causes that the application development process becomes not homogeneous for all these devices, increasing not only costs but also the possibility of creating inconsistent versions of each application (one for each device). To cope with this problem, we propose to incorporate into the application development process for mobile devices a mechanism to dynamically adapt the Graphical User Interface (GUI) of such applications to changes in the context of use, which is defined in terms of the user, the environment and the platform. Using plasticity as a GUI adaptability technique, we develop a mobile cross-platform mechanism to solve this problem.
ISBN:1457710110
9781457710117
DOI:10.1109/ICEEE.2011.6106613