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Multiple User Interfaces : Cross-Platform Applications and Context-Aware Interfaces |
| Editor: Ahmed Seffah (Concordia University, Canada); Editor: Homa Javahery (Concordia University, Canada) |
| Today’s communication systems consist of a bewildering array of devices and technologies. Mobile phones, PDAs, personal computers, corporate servers, Internet sites, even wearable devices – all of these compete for our attention and require us to interact with them in different ways. A Multiple User Interface (MUI) helps with this variety of communication systems and devices by offering a coherent, integrated user experience across platforms. A MUI manages and coordinates services provided to the user through multiple devices and platforms. In addition, it adapts the view of the information to the computing platform in use.
The following questions and more are addressed in Multiple User Interfaces: *What kinds of design methods are needed for building MUIs? *How can we enable users to customise a device? *How can the customisation of one device be reflected on all of the other devices available to the user? *What is the best way to deal with device-specific constraints while assuring maintainability and cross-platform consistency of interfaces? *How can we build interfaces that dynamically respond to changes in the environment, such as variations in network connectivity, user location, ambient sound and lighting conditions? | | |
