DynaMo-AID: A Design Process and a Runtime Architecture for Dynamic Model-Based User Interface Development

The last few years a lot of research efforts have been spent on user interfaces for pervasive computing. This paper shows a design process and a runtime architecture, DynaMo-AID, that provide design support and a runtime architecture for context-aware user interfaces. In the process attention is focused on the specification of the tasks the user and the application will have to perform, together with other entities related to tasks, like dialog and presentation. In this paper we will show how we can model tasks, dialogs, and presentation when the designer wants to develop context-sensitive user interfaces. Besides the design process, a runtime architecture will be presented supporting context-sensitive user interfaces. Pervasive user interfaces can change during the runtime of the interactive application due to a change of context or when a service becomes available to the application. We will show that traditional models like task, environment and dialog model have to be extended to tackle these new problems. This is why we provide modeling and runtime support solutions for design and development of context-sensitive user interfaces.

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