XPL the eXtensible presentation language

  • Authors:
  • A. Santangelo;A. Gentile;G. Vella;N. Ingraffia;M. Liotta

  • Affiliations:
  • (Correspd. Tel.: +39 091 7028529/ Fax: +39 091 6598043/ E-mail: santangelo@dinfo.unipa.it) Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Palermo, Italy;Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Palermo, Italy;Research and Development Laboratory of Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., Italy;Research and Development Laboratory of Engineering Ingegneria Informatica S.p.A., Italy;Dipartimento di Ingegneria Informatica, Palermo, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Mobile Information Systems - Advances in Mobile Communications and Computing
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

The last decade has witnessed a growing interest in the development of web interfaces enabling both multiple ways to access contents and, at the same time, fruition by multiple modalities of interaction (point-and-click, contents reading, voice commands, gestures, etc.). In this paper we describe a framework aimed at streamlining the design process of multi-channel, multimodal interfaces enabling full reuse of software components. This framework is called the eXtensible Presentation architecture and Language (XPL), a presentation language based on design pattern paradigm that keeps separated the presentation layer from the underlying programming logic. The language supplies a methodology to expedite multimodal interface development and to reduce the effort to implement interfaces for multiple access devices, by means of using the same code. This paper describes a methodology approach based on Visual Design Pattern (ViDP) and Verbal Design Pattern (VeDP), offering examples of multimodal and multichannel interfaces created with the XPL Editor.