Semantic User Interfaces

2012 ◽  
pp. 253-267
Author(s):  
Károly Tilly ◽  
Zoltán Porkoláb
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
System Development ◽  
Reusable Components ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Program Composition ◽  
Domain Ontologies ◽  
Full Separation ◽  
Oriented Approach

Semantic User Interfaces (SUIs), are sets of interrelated, static, domain specific documents having layout and content, whose interpretation is defined through semantic decoration. SUIs are declarative in nature. They allow program composition by the user herself at the user interface level. The operation of SUI based applications follow a service oriented approach. SUI elements referenced in user requests are automatically mapped to reusable service provider components, whose contracts are specified in domain ontologies. This assures semantic separation of user interface components from elements of the underlying application system infrastructure, which allows full separation of concerns during system development; real, application independent, reusable components; user editable applications and generic learnability. This article presents the architecture and components of a SUI framework, basic elements of SUI documents and relevant properties of domain ontologies for SUI documents. The basics of representation and operation of SUI applications are explained through a motivating example.

Semantic User Interfaces

2010 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Károly Tilly ◽  
Zoltán Porkoláb
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
System Development ◽  
Separation Of Concerns ◽  
Reusable Components ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
Program Composition ◽  
Domain Ontologies ◽  
Full Separation

Semantic User Interfaces (SUIs), are sets of interrelated, static, domain specific documents having layout and content, whose interpretation is defined through semantic decoration. SUIs are declarative in nature. They allow program composition by the user herself at the user interface level. The operation of SUI based applications follow a service oriented approach. SUI elements referenced in user requests are automatically mapped to reusable service provider components, whose contracts are specified in domain ontologies. This assures semantic separation of user interface components from elements of the underlying application system infrastructure, which allows full separation of concerns during system development; real, application independent, reusable components; user editable applications and generic learnability. This article presents the architecture and components of a SUI framework, basic elements of SUI documents and relevant properties of domain ontologies for SUI documents. The basics of representation and operation of SUI applications are explained through a motivating example.

Cloud-Based Intelligent User Interface for Cloud Manufacturing: Model, Technology, and Application

2015 ◽  
Vol 137 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Lei Ren ◽  
Jin Cui ◽  
Ni Li ◽  
Qiong Wu ◽  
Cuixia Ma ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Manufacturing Industry ◽  
Multimodal Interaction ◽  
Cloud Manufacturing ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Intelligent User Interface ◽  
Usability Problems ◽  
Key Characteristics ◽  
Industry Practice ◽  
Service Oriented

Cloud manufacturing is gradually transforming the way enterprises do business from traditional production-oriented manufacturing to service-oriented manufacturing. The development of cloud manufacturing in industry practice is closely related to domain-specific user experience. The huge amount of users with diverse roles and various requirements in manufacturing industry are facing great challenges of cloud system usability problems. Thus, user interface issues play a significant role in pushing this new area forward. In this paper, we discuss the key characteristics of intelligent user interface (IUI) for cloud manufacturing, i.e., naturality, smart mobility, self-configuration, and flexible customization. Further, a cloud-plus-IUI model for cloud end-users is presented. Then we discuss the enabling technologies, i.e., automatic configuration based on virtualization, context-aware adaption and recommendation, and multimodal interaction. Finally, we present SketchPart, a sketch-based pad system prototype for searching part drawings in the cloud, to show the advantages of the proposed cloud-plus-IUI solution.

A service-oriented application creation process in ubiquitous environments

2017 ◽  
Vol 13 (3) ◽  
pp. 300-330 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hajer Taktak ◽  
Faouzi Moussa
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Code Generation ◽  
Context Awareness ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Interface Specification ◽  
Interface Generation ◽  
Pervasive Service ◽  
Service Oriented ◽  
User Interface Generation

Purpose Many features constitute an adaptive system such as user model, interface specification, business functionalities and service implementation. Context awareness is an important facet of service oriented application creation dealing with the gathering, use and representation of context information. Generally, user interfaces and services communities work separately on the adaptation process and do not converge. The aim of this work is to manage the system’s functionalities and the user interface that delivers data to the relevant consumer early since the design phase until the code generation. Design/methodology/approach The authors discuss how a unified method based on a model-driven architecture for adaptive user interface and pervasive service creation eases the work of designers and developers, limits incompatibility issues and supports dynamic generation of systems adapted to different contexts of use. Findings The proposed approach is able to support a semi-automatic ubiquitous application generation with service, behavior, presentation and content adaptation. Originality/value In this paper, the authors tackle context-awareness at two levels: system functionalities and user interface generation. The authors also tackle adaptation at the specification and implementation levels.

scholarly journals Information Retrieval in Domain-specific Databases: An Analysis to Improve the User Interface of the Alcohol Studies Database

2003 ◽  
Vol 64 (3) ◽  
pp. 229-239 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ronald Jantz
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Interface Design ◽  
User Behavior ◽  
Bibliographic Databases ◽  
Log Analysis ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Rutgers University ◽  
Electronic Information Resources ◽  
Computer Scientists

Academic libraries are becoming more directly involved in the design and publishing of electronic information resources, including bibliographic databases, electronic journals, and digital archives. As a result, librarians are dealing with many user interface design issues that computer scientists and information specialists in other fields have encountered. Transaction log analysis can provide a rich source of information on user behavior and insights as to how user interfaces can be improved. This article describes the methodology and results of the log analysis for the Alcohol Studies Database (ASDB), a domain-specific database supported by the Center of Alcohol Studies and Rutgers University Libraries (RUL). The goals of this study were to better understand user search behavior, to analyze failure rates, and to develop approaches for improving the user interface.

scholarly journals Towards a model-driven approach for multiexperience AI-based user interfaces

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Planas ◽  
Gwendal Daniel ◽  
Marco Brambilla ◽  
Jordi Cabot
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
Language Processing ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
The Other ◽  
Software Systems ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Software Applications ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
Faster Development ◽  
Model Driven Approach

AbstractSoftware systems start to include other types of interfaces beyond the “traditional” Graphical-User Interfaces (GUIs). In particular, Conversational User Interfaces (CUIs) such as chat and voice are becoming more and more popular. These new types of interfaces embed smart natural language processing components to understand user requests and respond to them. To provide an integrated user experience all the user interfaces in the system should be aware of each other and be able to collaborate. This is what is known as a multiexperience User Interface. Despite their many benefits, multiexperience UIs are challenging to build. So far CUIs are created as standalone components using a platform-dependent set of libraries and technologies. This raises significant integration, evolution and maintenance issues. This paper explores the application of model-driven techniques to the development of software applications embedding a multiexperience User Interface. We will discuss how raising the abstraction level at which these interfaces are defined enables a faster development and a better deployment and integration of each interface with the rest of the software system and the other interfaces with whom it may need to collaborate. In particular, we propose a new Domain Specific Language (DSL) for specifying several types of CUIs and show how this DSL can be part of an integrated modeling environment able to describe the interactions between the modeled CUIs and the other models of the system (including the models of the GUI). We will use the standard Interaction Flow Modeling Language (IFML) as an example “host” language.

A Framework for Developing Cyber-Physical Systems

2017 ◽  
Vol 27 (09n10) ◽  
pp. 1361-1386 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xudong He ◽  
Zhijiang Dong ◽  
Heng Yin ◽  
Yujian Fu
Keyword(s):  
Quality Assurance ◽  
Model Checking ◽  
System Development ◽  
Cyber Physical Systems ◽  
Physical Systems ◽  
Model Driven ◽  
Domain Specific ◽  
High Level ◽  
Model Driven Approach ◽  
Oriented Approach

Cyber-physical systems (CPSs) are pervasive in our daily life from mobile phones to auto-driving cars. CPSs are inherently complex due to their sophisticated behaviors and thus difficult to build. In this paper, we propose a framework to develop CPSs based on a model-driven approach with quality assurance throughout the development process. An agent-oriented approach is used to model individual physical and computation processes using high-level Petri nets, and an aspect-oriented approach is used to integrate individual models. The Petri net models are systematically mapped to classes and threads in Java, which are enhanced and extended with domain-specific functionalities. Complementary quality assurance techniques are applied throughout system development and deployment, including simulation and model checking of design models, model checking of Java code, and runtime verification of Java executable. We demonstrate our framework using a car parking system.

An Abstract User Interface Framework for Mobile and Wearable Devices

2014 ◽  
pp. 156-163
Author(s):  
Claas Ahlrichs ◽  
Michael Lawo ◽  
Hendrik Iben
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Unified Framework ◽  
Reusable Components ◽  
Abstract Description ◽  
The Future ◽  
Run Time

In the future, mobile and wearable devices will increasingly be used for interaction with surrounding technologies. When developing applications for those devices, one usually has to implement the same application for each individual device. Thus a unified framework could drastically reduce development efforts. This paper presents a framework that facilitates the development of context-aware user interfaces (UIs) with reusable components for those devices. It is based on an abstract description of an envisioned UI which is used to generate a context- and device-specific representation at run-time. Rendition in various modalities and adaption of the generated representation are also supported.

An Abstract User Interface Framework for Mobile and Wearable Devices

2011 ◽  
Vol 3 (3) ◽  
pp. 28-35 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claas Ahlrichs ◽  
Michael Lawo ◽  
Hendrik Iben
Keyword(s):  
User Interface ◽  
User Interfaces ◽  
Wearable Devices ◽  
Context Aware ◽  
Unified Framework ◽  
Reusable Components ◽  
Abstract Description ◽  
The Future ◽  
Run Time

In the future, mobile and wearable devices will increasingly be used for interaction with surrounding technologies. When developing applications for those devices, one usually has to implement the same application for each individual device. Thus a unified framework could drastically reduce development efforts. This paper presents a framework that facilitates the development of context-aware user interfaces (UIs) with reusable components for those devices. It is based on an abstract description of an envisioned UI which is used to generate a context- and device-specific representation at run-time. Rendition in various modalities and adaption of the generated representation are also supported.

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