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Title: DeviceIndependence with UIML User Interface Markup Language


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Device-Independence with UIML(User Interface
Markup Language)
Marc Abrams abrams_at_harmonia.com uiml.org W3C
Workshop on Web Device Independent
Authoring October 2000
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Quotes from Position Papers
  • New XML language should
  • Allow author-once-deploy many scenarios
  • Achieve clean separation between behavior,
    content, presentation Ruud Siebelink
  • Issue is interaction not presentation Paul
    Smethers, WAP
  • Ideal solution write well-formed code once
    Jansen
  • Semantics meaning of Web content must be made
    clear at primary design level William
    Loughborough
  • Must adapt to new devices not envisionedRalph
    Case, Stephane Maes

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Where UIML Fits In
Application database
Content (XML, audio,)
Device Adaption UIML
Using CC/PP
XHTML
VoiceXML
XHTML
VoiceXML
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UIML One Part of a Solution
  • 3 years in development at Harmonia, Center for
    HCI at Virginia Tech
  • Tools downloaded in 40 countries
  • Compile to anything
  • Anyone can freely implement UIML
  • Objective is open standard
  • One canonical representation of UI forany
    device, language, OS, UI-metaphor

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Problem with Existing Approaches
  • Suggested way to annotate existing markup
  • ltcardgt
  • ltselect classDISPLAY_SMALLgt
  • lt/cardgt

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Key ConceptUIML is a Meta Language
  • XML
  • Doesnt define tags (ltPgt,)
  • Must add doc type definition to make it useful
  • No need to change XML as new tag sets invented
  • UIML
  • Doesnt define tool-kit specific tags (ltMenugt,)
  • Uses a few powerful tags (ltpartgt, ltpropertygt,)
  • Must add toolkit vocabulary to make it useful
  • No need to change UIML as new devices invented

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UIML Model
Underlying principle of single authoring is MVC
to separate content/structure Ralph Case,
Stephane Maes
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UIML Skeleton
lt?xml version"1.0" ... ?gt ltuiml version"2.0"gt
lt/uimlgt
  • What parts comprise the UI whats their
    relationship?

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UIML Skeleton
  • lt?xml version"1.0" ... ?gt
  • ltuiml version"2.0"gt
  • ltinterfacegt
  • ltstructuregtlt/structuregt
  • lt/interfacegt
  • lt/uimlgt

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ltpeersgt Maps Classesto Targets
  • ltd-class name"JButton" maps-to"javax.swing.JBu
    tton"gt
  • lt/d-classgt
  • Versus
  • ltd-class name"JButton" maps-tohtmlinput"gt
  • lt/d-classgt
  • This part is written once, like a device driver
    for an OS.
  • Events and calls to outside world handled
    similarly.

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NxM Problem
  • App composed on
  • M pages
  • accessed via N devices
  • requires NxM authoring steps
  • Ralph Case, Stephane Maes

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UIML PermitsDevelopment Continuum
Usedevice-specificvocabulary ltpart
ClassJPopupMenugtversusltpart ClassSelectgt
Usegenericvocabulary ltpart ClassMenu gt
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UIML Permits Families of UIs
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Another Perspective
Device-independent markup
Device-dependent markup
Scripting languages
High-level language (C, Java)
Assembly language
Machine language
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StillUIML is Not a Silver Bullet
  • Some open problems
  • Aid/enforce accessibility guidelines Jon Wu
  • Support auto adaptation/personalizationRuud
    Siebelink
  • Reorganizing UI
  • Many apps will need to be re-designed entirely
    Guido Grassel
  • 1 page in a desktop Web browser might be split
    into 2 screens for TV Peter Ferne

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  • European Workshop on UIML January 2001 in
    Paris(see uiml.org)

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Supplemental Slides
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Quote
  • Level 0 represents universal content, level 1
    content with knowledge of device capability,
    Jon C.S. Wu

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More Quotes
  • Assumption that there is primordial content
    forming single original document
  • These assumptions are false
  • A news story in one paragraph in tabloid is not
    same as an extended column in a broadcast Miles
    Sabin

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More Quotes
  • WML/WMLScript differs significantly from
    HTML/JavaScript. Hence format used needs to be
    expressive enough Guido Grassel

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  • Identification of content should be
    device-independent
  • Text may be represented in either
    fully-formated or paraphrased versions
    Gimson

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More Quotes
  • Choice between template-driven content-driven
    presentation generation Sebastian Nykopp
  • Issue is interaction not presentation Paul
    Smethers on WAP

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