A survey on transformation tools for model based user interface development

  • Authors:
  • Robbie Schaefer

  • Affiliations:
  • Paderborn University, C-LAB, Paderborn, Germany

  • Venue:
  • HCI'07 Proceedings of the 12th international conference on Human-computer interaction: interaction design and usability
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

As a wide variety of interaction devices, modalities has to be supported by user interface developers, model-based user interface development gets increasing attention. Especially if context- and user-awareness comes into play, handcrafting a user interface is rendered almost impossible. In model-based user interface development, usually several models are applied to describe different aspects of the user interface or to provide a varying level of detail. The relations between the models representing those levels of abstractions are established through transformations, a concept which is also applied in software engineering with the Model Driven Architecture (MDA). In this paper we will review several transformation systems and discuss their applicability for model-based user interface development.