@INPROCEEDINGS{Schwartze2010a,
  author = {Veit Schwartze},
  title = {Adaptive user interfaces for smart environments},
  booktitle = {International Conference on Pervasive Services Doctoral Colloquium},
  year = {2010},
  isbn = {978-1-4503-0249-4},
  abstract = {Our environment is equipped with a variety of interaction devices,
	appliances and a various sensors. This increasing complexity of our
	environment makes the development of application interfaces for smart
	environments a challenging and time-consuming task. To reduce the
	complexity, user interface developers describe applications on different
	levels of abstraction. At the end of the development process, the
	user interface models are mostly transformed into application code.
	Applications deployed in a heterogenic and highly dynamic environment
	must be able to adapt to different situations, unforeseeable at design
	time. To tackle this issue, this work uses models at runtime to enable
	the reasoning about the decisions of the designer at runtime. As
	a result of this approach, the lines between design- and runtime
	are frequently blurred. This work deals with the development of graphical
	user interfaces using models at runtime.  In order to overcome the
	problem of the unknown context at design time, this work uses the
	information from the user interface (UI) models and relations between
	the different abstraction layers to derive a layout model witch is
	flexible enough for most of the situations.  Because the design of
	a user interface is a creative process, the designer must be involved
	into the design process. The development process is supported by
	a tool to simulate different possible situations and to define application
	specific layout statements. At runtime the adaptive application (user
	interface) is faced with the real world. Because there could be unconsidered
	user characteristics like color blindness, which affects the visualization
	of the user interface, the user needs a possibility to change the
	behavior of the layout algorithm. In contrast to the designer, the
	end user of the application uses a more application specific instrument
	to personalize the user interface.},
  file = {:../Papers/Schwartze2010a.pdf:PDF},
  owner = {vschwartze},
  timestamp = {2010.06.02}
}