UsiXML: A User Interface Description Language for Context-Sensitive User Interfaces

This paper presents USIXML (USer Interface eXtensible Markup Language), a User Interface Description Language aimed at de-scribing user interfaces with various levels of details and abstrac-tions, depending on the context of use. USIXML supports a fam-ily of user interfaces such as, but not limited to: device-independent, platform-independent, modality independent, and ul-timately context-independent. This paper consequently details how context-sensitive user interfaces may be specified and pro-duced from the USIXML specifications. USIXML allows specify-ing multiple models involved in user interface design such as: task, domain, presentation, dialog, and context of use, which is in turn decomposed into user, platform, and environment. These models are structured according to the four layers of the Came-leon framework: task & concepts, abstract user interface, concrete user interface, and final user interface. To support relationships between these models, a model for inter-model mapping is also introduced that cover forward and reverse engineering as well as translation from one context of use to another.
AVI
ACM
Proceedings of the ACM AVI'2004 Workshop "Developing User Interfaces with XML: Advances on User Interface Description Languages"
2004
55-62