A Survey of Patterns for Adapting Smartphone App UIs to Smart Watches
Zhilan Zhou, Jian Bo Xu, Aruna Balasubramanian, Donald E. Porter · 2020
Wearable devices, such as smart watches and fitness trackers are growing in popularity, creating a need for application developers to adapt or extend a UI, typically from a smartphone, onto these devices. Wearables generally have a smaller form factor than a phone; thus, porting an app to the watch necessarily involves reworking the UI. An open problem is identifying best practices for adapting UIs to wearable devices.