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Call for Papers:
Raising the Level of Abstraction of User Interface Specification with XML
User Interface Description Languages
Background
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For many years, Human-Computer Interaction has witnessed a continual race
for the ultimate User Interface Description Language (UIDL) that would
ideally capture the essence of what a UI could be or should be.
In the early 80's, UI Management Systems (UIMS) were at the root of model-
based UI development. UIMS were an important concept defining high-level
abstractions on top of low-level concepts. As a result, low-level
mechanisms and implementation details could be abstracted away. UIMSs
enabled UI developers to write specifications with high-level specification
languages. Subsequently, in the late 90's, new classes of devices for
accessing services on the Web emerged. Because of this diversity of
devices, model-based UI authoring gained importance and allowed designers
to specify the different aspects of the UI separately. XML appeared as a
natural choice to capture the specification of this wide variety of UIs. A
new family of UIDLs was born, that seek the achievement of the following
goals:
Capturing UI requirements for an abstract definition that remains stable
across different deployment contexts.
Making a single UI design for multiple devices, modalities, platforms,
appliances.
Improving the reusability of UI design.
Supporting evolution, extensibility and adaptability of the UI.
Using a UI description to enable automated generation of UI code.
The UIDL research area has reached a degree of maturity demonstrating sound
roots and extensive development. The proliferation of ideas, concepts, and
solutions proposed around UIDLs is a space that needs to be explored and
debated. This special issue of the International Journal of Web Engineering
and Technology (IJWET) provides the seed of such a space.
If you are involved in the design, development, evaluation or usage of
UIDLs we invite you to submit a paper for this special issue.
Envisioned Papers
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This special issue is dedicated to XML-based UI description languages.
Topics of interest include:
New and innovative concepts in UIDLs.
UIDLs for describing novel UI types such as, but not limited to, pervasive
UIs, multi-context UIs, rich internet applications, 3D UIs, UIs for mobile
devices, UIs for ambient intelligence, and plastic UIs.
UIDLs supporting frameworks or particular development activities such as
transformation techniques for UI development, model-driven architecture for
UI and UI code generation.
Comparisons of UIDLs in terms of goals, hypotheses, requirements,
foundations, scope of the language, expressiveness of the language,
modeling capabilities, range of obtainable UIs, and tool support.
Lessons learned, industry experiences, and design issues in the conception
and use of UIDL.
All papers should clearly motivate and assess the benefit of using a high
level XML description of the UI with respect to the type of UI/process in
the scope of the contribution. Papers submitted for this special issue
should contain original material, should be unpublished, and not under
submission to any other venue.
Submissions
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Contributions are to be sent to [log in to unmask] Submitted
papers should be no longer then 20 pages. Authors should format a
submission following the IJWET instructions for authors at
http://www.inderscience.com/papers/about.php.
All papers will be subject to a thorough peer review process.
Important dates
Paper submission: March 1, 2006
Acceptance / rejection notification: June 1, 2006
Final version due: July 1, 2006
Special issue publication: Second half of 2006
Program Committee
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Marc Abrams, Harmonia Inc., USA
Gaëlle Calvary, University of Grenoble I, France
Karin Coninx, Hasselt University, Expertise Centre for Digital Media,
Belgium
Peter Forbrig, Universitaet Rostock, Germany
Quentin Limbourg, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
Víctor M. López Jaquero, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Departamento de
Informática, Spain
Kris Luyten, Hasselt University, Expertise Centre for Digital Media, Belgium
Guido Menkhaus, University of Salzburg, Austria
Roland Merrick, Ease of Uses Strategy, IBM, UK
Jeffrey Nichols, Carnegie Mellon University, Human-Computer Interaction
Institute, USA
Nuno Jardim Nunes, Universidade da Madeira, Portugal
Oscar Pastor, Valencia University of Technology, Department of Information
Systems and Computation, Spain
Fabio Paternò, C.N.R, ISTI, Italy
Manuel Pérez-Quiñones, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Department of Computer Science, USA
Johan Plomp, VTT, Finland
Martin Gonzalez Rodríguez, The HCI Research Group, University of Oviedo,
Spain
Jean Vanderdonckt, Université catholique de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Marco Antonio Alba Winckler, LIIHS-IRIT, University Paul Sabatier, France
Thomas Ziegert, SAP, Germany
Issue editors
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Marc Abrams, Harmonia Inc., USA
Quentin Limbourg, Catholic University of Louvain, Belgium
Kris Luyten, Hasselt University, Expertise Centre for Digital Media, Belgium
Guido Menkhaus, University of Salzburg, Austria
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