Abstract:

Methods to support the creation of multi-device user interfaces typically use some type of abstraction of the user interface design. To retrieve the final user interface from the abstraction a transformation will be applied that specializes the abstraction for a particular target platform. The User Interface Markup Language (UIML) offers a way to create multi-device user interface descriptions while maintaining the consistency of certain aspects of a user interface across platforms. We extended the UIML language with support for layout constraints. Designers can create layout templates based on constraints that limit the ways a user interface can rearrange across platforms. This results in a higher degree of consistency and reusability of interface designs.

Cite (BibTeX):

@inproceedings{luyten_multipleui_2006,
  author    = {Luyten, Kris and Vermeulen, Jo and Coninx, Karin},
  title     = {Constraint adaptability of multi-device user interfaces},
  booktitle = {MAFOC '06 the many faces of consistency in cross-platform design, CHI '06 workshop},
  year      = {2006},
  publisher = {CEUR Workshop proceedings},
  pages     = {40-45},
  url       = {https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-198/}
}