Graceful Degradation of User Interfaces as a Design Method for Multiplatform Systems

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 constrained platform. A major concern of the graceful degradation approach is to guarantee 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 the rules with the smallest impact on the multiplatform system continuity to be applied first.
IUI
ACM Press, New York
Proc. of 8th ACM Int. Conf. on Intelligent User Interfaces
2004
140-147
DBLP:conf/iui/2004
1-58113-815-6