Towards Model-driven Development of Mobile Multimodal User Interfaces for Services.
Daniel Porta · 2010
Abstract: We describe amodel-drivenapproach for developing multimodal user interfaces for services that are especially appropriate for mobile consumption. Thereby,we refine an existing service engineering methodology with respective meta-models and provide initial tool support for user experience experts by means of an Eclipse-based, graphical editor implementing model-to-model transformations, consistency checks, and automatic code generation. The resulting runnable UI can either be consumed from adesktop pc as well as from modern smartphones via browser-based, multimodal client applications. This allows for aseamless user experience throughout different devices and situations. Such aclient application is linked to aservice-oriented, ontology-based dialogue platform that acts as amiddleware between the client and the service backend and enables auser to naturally interact with services. 1