A toolkit of mechanism and context independent widgets

  • Authors:
  • Murray Crease;Philip Gray;Stephen Brewster

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK;Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK;Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, UK

  • Venue:
  • DSV-IS'00 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Design, specification, and verification of interactive systems
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Most human-computer interfaces are designed to run on a static platform (e.g. a workstation with a monitor) in a static environment (e.g. an office). However, with mobile devices becoming ubiquitous and capable of running applications similar to those found on static devices, it is no longer valid to design static interfaces. This paper describes a user-interface architecture which allows interactors to be flexible about the way they are presented. This flexibility is defined by the different input and output mechanisms used. An interactor may use different mechanisms depending upon their suitability in the current context, user preference and the resources available for presentation using that mechanism.