Adapt-UI: an IDE supporting model-driven development of self-adaptive UIs

ABSTRACT

Self-adaptive UIs (SAUIs) have been promoted as a solution for context variability due to their ability to automatically adapt to the context-of-use at runtime. The development of SAUIs is a complex task since self-adaptivity and context management aspects have to be incorporated in the UI development process. In this paper, we present an integrated development environment (IDE) for model-driven development of SAUIs. This IDE, named Adapt-UI, provides integrated views for UI, context and adaptation modeling. Based on the specified models, final UI code and context as well as adaptation services are generated and integrated in an overall UI framework. This allows runtime UI adaptation realized by an automatic reaction to context-of-use changes. The benefit of our approach is demonstrated by a case study, showing the development of self-adaptive UIs for a university library application, utilizing the Angular 2 JavaScript framework.

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Index Terms

• Human-centered computing

  • Human computer interaction (HCI)

• Software and its engineering

  • Software notations and tools

    • Development frameworks and environments

      • Integrated and visual development environments