Context-aware User Interface Framework for Mobile Applications
- Resource Type
- Conference
- Authors
- Butter, Thomas; Aleksy, Markus; Bostan, Philipp; Schader, Martin
- Source
- 27th International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems Workshops (ICDCSW'07) Distributed Computing Systems Workshops, 2007. ICDCSW '07. 27th International Conference on. :39-39 Jun, 2007
- Subject
- Computing and Processing
Communication, Networking and Broadcast Technologies
User interfaces
Java
Displays
Graphical user interfaces
Application software
Logic devices
Rendering (computer graphics)
Personal digital assistants
HTML
Mobile handsets
- Language
- ISSN
- 1545-0678
Mobile devices available today are very heterogenous with regard to their display and input capabilities and used software platform configurations. This leads to a complex development process for applications which have to target a wide range of devices. Adapting the interface of an application to the current context of the user adds another burden to developers, while improving the user experience. Therefore we developed an XUL-based User Interface Framework which eases the development of mobile applications by separating the UI adaption from the application logic and offering portability to different Java ME platform configurations. Using this framework the user interface (UI) adapts itself automatically on context-changes and changes to different screen resolutions or orientations without increasing code complexity for the developers.