Adapting UsiXML User Interfaces to Cultural Background
Iyad Khaddam, Jean M. Vanderdonckt · Digital Access to Libraries (Université catholique de Louvain (UCL), l'Université de Namur (UNamur) and the Université Saint-Louis (USL-B)) · 2010
ABSTRACT Adapting a user interface to the end user's cultural back-ground today remains an open challenge since many under-lying issues are not yet solved. This paper addresses this challenge by reporting on a selected series of these issues, by structuring them according to Nielsen's linguistic model of interaction, and by discussing how each issue can be supported by incorporating its solution into a User Inter-face Description Language, such as User Interface eXten-sible Markup Language (UsiXML), at the level of a Con-crete User Interface (CUI). In particular, the problem of right-to-left (RTL) versus left-to-right languages (LTR) languages is discussed through a series of adaptations of algorithms and techniques that support the automated gen-eration of Arabain graphical user interfaces based on UsiXML. Categories and Subject Descriptors H.1.2 [ Information Systems ]: Models and Principles – User/Machine Systems . H5.2 [ Information interfaces and presentation ]: User Interfaces–