Framework for user interface adaptation

Abstract

This paper presents research efforts targeted at the development of a generic framework providing support for automated user interface (UI) adaptation. We have developed a generic Java-based adaptation framework that combines the advantages of manual and automated adaptation. This framework supports the addition and removal of modular adaptation mechanisms. The framework is based on a generic UI markup language (XUL) allowing the manual addition of semantic meta-information at design time. Users may add various adaptive transformations as well as making use of various built-in modules. The framework supports transformation in both SAX and DOM. In addition a supplied fragmentation mechanism automates the decomposition of UIs into UI pages that fit device specific resource limits. The framework has been evaluated on simple case studies doing various experiments, for example, cost of fragmentation and speed comparison of SAX and DOM transformations. © Springer-Verlag 2004.