Cognitive systems engineering
IBM computer usability satisfaction questionnaires: psychometric evaluation and instructions for use
International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction
Towards a general computational framework for model-based interface development systems
IUI '99 Proceedings of the 4th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
Perspectives of ambient intelligence in the home environment
Telematics and Informatics
Ambient multimodality: towards advancing computer accessibility and assisted living
Universal Access in the Information Society
CAMILE: Controlling AmI Lights Easily
Proceedings of the 1st international conference on PErvasive Technologies Related to Assistive Environments
Design and evaluation of smart home user interface: effects of age, tasks and intelligence level
Behaviour & Information Technology
User interface declarative models and development environments: a survey
DSV-IS'00 Proceedings of the 7th international conference on Design, specification, and verification of interactive systems
ERCIM'06 Proceedings of the 9th conference on User interfaces for all
Control smart homes easily with simple touch
Ubi-MUI '11 Proceedings of the 2011 international ACM workshop on Ubiquitous meta user interfaces
Providing personalized Internet services by means of context-aware spoken dialogue systems
Journal of Ambient Intelligence and Smart Environments - Context Awareness
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User interface development in Ambient Intelligence (AmI) environments is anticipated to be a particularly complex and programming intensive endeavor. Additionally, AmI environments should ensure accessibility and usability of interactive technologies by users with different characteristics and requirements in a mainstream fashion. Therefore, appropriate user interface development methods and tools are required, capable of both reducing development efforts and 'injecting' accessibility issues into AmI applications from the early design stages. This paper introduces two tools, named AmIDesigner and AmIPlayer, which have been specifically developed to address the above challenges through automatic generation of accessible Graphical User Interfaces in AmI environments. The combination of these two tools offers a simple and rapid design-and-play approach, and the running user interfaces produced integrate non-visual feedback and a scanning mechanism to support accessibility. AmIDesigner and AmIPlayer have been evaluated to assess their usability by designers, and have been put to practice in the redevelopment of a light control application in a smart environment as a case study demonstrating the viability of the design-and-play approach. The results confirm the usefulness and usability of the tools themselves. Overall, the proposed approach has the potential to contribute significantly to the development, up-take and user acceptance of AmI technologies in the home environment.