An XML-Based Runtime User Interface Description Language for Mobile Computing Devices

Luyten, Kris; Coninx, Karin

doi:10.1007/3-540-45522-1_1

Kris Luyten & Karin Coninx, An XML-Based Runtime User Interface Description Language for Mobile Computing Devices, in Chris W. Johnson (ed.), Interactive Systems: Design, Specification, and Verification, 8th International Workshop, DSV-IS 2001, Glasgow, Scotland, UK, June 13-15, 2001, Revised Papers,1-15 (Springer 2001). DOI PDF

Abstract:

In a time where mobile computing devices and embedded systems gain importance, too much time is spent to reinventing user interfaces for each new device. To enhance future extensibility and reusability of systems and their user interfaces we propose a runtime user interface description language, which can cope with constraints found in embedded systems and mobile computing devices. XML seems to be a suitable tool to do this, when combined with Java. Following the evolution of Java towards XML, it is logical to introduce the concept applied to mobile computing devices and embedded systems.