User-Preferred Interface Design with Abstract Interaction Description Language
Takuto Yanagida, Hidetoshi Nonaka, Masahito Kurihara · 2006
For user-preferred interfaces, we propose a service architecture, the interface-client/logic-server (ICLS). It separates specific interfaces from services. An ICLS-based service consists of some interface clients and a logic server. The target of this work is the services with intermediary computers in various scenes of our daily activities. Nowadays, against various users' characteristics, the services offer different UIs individually, and they are mostly single GUI. In ICLS, users can switch interfaces of services to suit their preferences and to customize flexibly. Interface clients and logic servers work together independently with common descriptions of interaction. Those descriptions are written in the abstract interaction description language (AIDL), we propose. AIDL is an application of semantic web technologies, and describes interactions as graphs. These graphs represent a specification of interfaces and the current state of interactions constantly. We propose a framework of ICLS-based service design. Developers can use it like GUI toolkits. With this framework, we developed three clients and two servers.