A review of XML-compliant user interface description languages is produced that compares
a significant selection of various languages addressing different goals, such as multi …

Abstract USer Interface eXtensible Markup Language (USIXML) consists in a User Interface
Description Language (UIDL) allowing designers to apply a multi-path development of user …

The increasing availability of new types of interaction platforms raises a number of issues for
designers and developers. There is a need for new methods and tools to support …

We present Panelrama, a web-based framework for the construction of applications using
distributed user interfaces (DUIs). Our implementation provides developers with low …

The focus of this work arises from two needs within information science literature:(1) to
understand more, from an empirically driven perspective, about the increasingly visible yet …

USer Interface eXtensible Markup Language (USIXML) consists of a User Interface
Description Language (UIDL) allowing designers to apply a multi-directional development of …

This chapter is about personalization and adaptation in electronic commerce (e-commerce)
applications. In the first part, we briefly introduce the challenges posed by e-commerce and …

Intelligent adaptation is a key issue for the design of flexible support systems for mobile
users. In this paper we present UbiquiTO, a tourist guide which integrates different forms of …

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 …

Because of the growing spread of mobile and small devices (like PDAs, mobile phones,
etc.), designers and developers of interactive systems have to consider user mobility and the …