Creating a lightweight user interface description language: An overview and analysis of the personal universal controller project

ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Nichols, Jeffrey ^a   Myers, Brad A ^b  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b Carnegie Mellon University   (United States)

Author keywords

Appliances; Automatic interface generation; Handheld computers; Mobile phone; Model based authoring; Model based user interfaces; Personal digital assistants (PDAs); Remote control; User interface description language (UIDL)

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC INTERFACE GENERATION; MODEL-BASED; MODEL-BASED AUTHORING; MODEL-BASED USER INTERFACES; USER INTERFACE DESCRIPTION LANGUAGES;

DESIGN; GRAPHICAL USER INTERFACES; LINGUISTICS; MOBILE PHONES; PERSONAL COMPUTERS; QUERY LANGUAGES; REMOTE CONTROL; TELECOMMUNICATION EQUIPMENT; TELEPHONE; TELEPHONE SETS;

PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS;

EID: 71449126735     PISSN: 10730516     EISSN: 15577325     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/1614390.1614392     Document Type: Article

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