Multiple User Interfaces

"...this is a timely book, which is a valid contribution to an important, emerging field." (Computing Reviews.com, August 10, 2004)

Ahmed Seffah is a professor in the department of Computer Science at Concordia University. He is director of the Human-Centered Software Engineering Group and the co-founder of the Concordia Software Usability and Empirical Studies Lab. He holds a PhD in software engineering from the Ecole Centrale de Lyon (France). His research interest are at the crossroads between software engineering and Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), including usability measurement, user interface design, empirical studies on developer experiences with CASE tools, human-centered software engineering, and patterns as a vehicle for integrating HCI knowledge in software engineering practices. Dr. Seffah is the vice-chair of the IFIP working group on user-centered design methodologies. During the last 10 years, he has been involved in different projects in North America and Europe. Homa Javahery is a researcher and project manager with the Human-Centered Software Engineering Group, including the Usability and Empirical Studies Lab, in the department of Computer Science at Concordia University. She holds a Master's degree in Computer Science from Concordia University, and a Bachelor of Science degree from McGill University. She is combining different design approaches from human sconces and engineering disciplines to develop a pattern-oriented framework for designing a large variety of interfaces. She has been involved in different collaborative projects at the INRIA Research Institute in Nancy, France and the Daimler-Chrysler Research Institute in Ulm, Germany.

Acknowledgements. About the Editors. Contributors. PART I. BASIC TERMINOLOGY, CONCEPTS, AND CHALLENGES. 1. Executive Summary and Book Overview (Ahmed Seffah and Homa Javahery). 2. Multiple User Interfaces: Cross-Platform Applications and Context-Aware Interfaces (Ahmed Seffah and Homa Javahery). PART II. ADAPTATION AND CONTEXT-AWARE USER INTERFACES. 3. A Reference Framework for the Development of Plastic User Interfaces (David Thevenin, et al.). 4. Temporal Aspects of Multi-Platform Interaction (David England and Min Du). 5. The PALIO Framework for Adaptive Information Services (Constantine Stephanidis, et al.). PART III. DEVELOPMENT TECHNOLOGY AND LANGUAGES. 6. Building Multi-Platform User Interfaces with UIML (Mir Farooq Ali, et al.). 7. XIML: A Multiple User Interface Representation Framework for Industry (Angel Puerta and Jacob Eisenstein). 8. AUIT: Adaptable User Interface Technology, with Extended Java Server Pages (John Grundy and Wenjing Zou). PART IV. MODEL-BASED DEVELOPMENT. 9. Adaptive Task Modeling: From Formal Models to XML Representations (Peter Forbrig, et al.). 10. Multi-Model and Multi-Level Development of User Interfaces (Jean Vanderdonckt, et al.). 11. Supporting Interactions with Multiple Platforms Through User and Task Models (L. Marucci, et al.). PART. V ARCHITECTURES, PATTERNS, AND DEVELOPMENT TOOLKITS. 12. Migrating User Interfaces Across Platforms Using HCI Patterns (Homa Javahery, et al.). 13. Support for the Adapting Applications and Interfaces to Context (Anind K. Dey and Gregory D. Abowd). 14. A Run-time Infrastructure to Support the Construction of Distributed, Multi-User, Multi-Device Interactive Applications (Simon Lock and Harry Brignull). PART VI. EVALUATION AND SOCIAL IMPACTS. 15 Assessing Usability across Multiple User Interfaces (Gustav OEquist, et al.). 16. Iterative Design and Evaluation of Multiple Interfaces for a Complex Commercial Word Processor (Joanna McGrenere). 17. Inter-Usability of Multi-Device Systems - A Conceptual Framework (Charles Denis and Laurent Karsenty). Subject Index.