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International Workshop on Design, Specification, and Verification of Interactive Systems

DSV-IS 2002: Interactive Systems:Design, Specification, and Verification pp 29–43Cite as

Adaptive User Interface for Mobile Devices

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Adapting a graphical user interface (GUI) to a variety of resources with different capabilities is one of the most interesting questions of today’s mobile computation. The GUI constructed for one application should be usable on different interactive devices, e.g. WebTV terminals, WAP phones or Java-enabled devices. In this paper, we discuss existing solutions and present a solution based on mobile agents. Mobile agents construct their GUI using third-party eXtensible User interface Language (XUL), jXUL middleware and XSL transformations. Mobile agents move to host computers and then build their GUI, or act as a proxy to devices without sufficient processing capabilities (e.g., WAP devices). The result is an adaptable GUI platform that can be run on multiple devices without modifications, supporting different resources and architectures. We show the application of this approach by implementing a mobile currency converter and survey.

This work was supported by the DGA project P084/2001.

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  1. IIS Department, University of Zaragoza, Maria de Luna 3, 50018, Zaragoza, Spain

    Nikola Mitrović & Eduardo Mena

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  1. Fachbereich Informatik, Universität Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 21, 18051, Rostock, Germany

    Peter Forbrig

  2. Faculty of Economical, Social and Political Sciences (ESPO) School of Management (IAG), Information Systems Unit (ISYS), Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), Place des Doyens, 1, 1348, Louvain-La-Neuve, Belgium

    Quentin Limbourg  & Jean Vanderdonckt  & 

  3. Fraunhofer-Institut für Graphische Datenverarbeitung, Joachim-Jungius-Str. 11, 18059, Rostock, Germany

    Bodo Urban

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Mitrović, N., Mena, E. (2002). Adaptive User Interface for Mobile Devices. In: Forbrig, P., Limbourg, Q., Vanderdonckt, J., Urban, B. (eds) Interactive Systems:Design, Specification, and Verification. DSV-IS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2545. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-36235-5_3

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