Graceful degradation of user interfaces as a design method for multiplatform systems

  • Authors:
  • Murielle Florins;Jean Vanderdonckt

  • Affiliations:
  • Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium;Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 9th international conference on Intelligent user interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

This paper introduces and describes the notion of graceful degradation as a method for supporting the design of user interfaces for multiplatform systems when the capabilities of each platform are very different. The approach is based on a set of transformational rules applied to a single user interface designed for the less constraint platform. A major concern of the graceful degradation approach is to guarantee a maximal continuity between the platform specific versions of the user interface. In order to guarantee the continuity property, a priority ordering between rules is proposed. That ordering permits to apply first the rules with a minimal impact on the multiplatform system continuity.