A Model Driven Engineering Approach Toward User Interfaces Adaptation

Related Work

A great deal of research has been carried out in the Human Computer Interaction engineering, among which we can quote the TERESA method (Mori, Paternò, & Santoro, 2003) that supplies the tasks as a single model, and allows the generation of several interfaces for various platforms. We can also cite the Comets (COntext sensitive Multi-target widgETS) (Calvary, Coutaz, Dâassi, Balme, & Demeure, 2004), which essentially proposes a model for the plastic interactors that can be adapted to the variation of the screen size. Likewise, the UsiXML (User Interface eXtensible Markup Language) (Vanderdonckt, 2005; Limbourg & Vanderdonckt, 2004) approach represents a UI approach of engineering defined according to the Cameleon reference framework (Calvary, Coutaz, Thevenin, Limbourg, Bouillon, & Vanderdonck, 2003). Such an approach describes a context model consisted of three components: user, environment and platform. But, only the variant platform is considered during the UI generation.