Modelling internet based applications for designing multi-device adaptive interfaces
This addresses the challenge of multi-device adaptive interfaces for internet applications, but appears incremental as it builds on existing concepts of abstract interaction models.
The paper tackles the problem of designing internet applications that automatically adapt to different mobile devices by defining a formal model that specifies interaction abstractly from the presentation layer, and provides a formal device characterization for implementation.
The wide spread of mobile devices in the consumer market has posed a number of new issues in the design of internet applications and their user interfaces. In particular, applications need to adapt their interaction modalities to different portable devices. In this paper we address the problem of defining models and techniques for designing internet based applications that automatically adapt to different mobile devices. First, we define a formal model that allows for specifying the interaction in a way that is abstract enough to be decoupled from the presentation layer, which is to be adapted to different contexts. The model is mainly based on the idea of describing the user interaction in terms of elementary actions. Then, we provide a formal device characterization showing how to effectively implements the AIUs in a multidevice context.