User interfaces (UI) for data systems has been a technical and human interaction research question for a long time. Today these user interfaces require dynamic automation and run-time generation to properly deal with on a large-scale. This paper presents an agent-based framework, i.e., a methodological process, a meta-model and a computer software to drive the automatic database user interface ...

In the pervasive computing era, mobile phones and personal digital assistants are widely used for data collection. The traditional user interfaces which are employed for data collection in personal computer environments are to be modified appropriately for the mobile environment. Because, it is difficult to display full interface on a single mobile screen due to the limitation of the mobile pho...

Vision constitutes a significant part of information input for Human Machine Interaction (HMI), and the understanding of gaze characteristics such as stability, focus, and duration is promising to design a good User Interface (UI). This paper defines HMI events as UI design factors and identifies its correlation with users’ feedback, i.e. Gaze Metrics (GM) and affect. The observation of the tri...

In ubiquitous computing, the context of use (user, platform, environment) is in a permanent change. This has brought about new challenges in the Human Computer Interface (HCI) engineering to obtain User Interfaces (UI) that are compliant to their context of use. This paper has benefitted from the interests of parameterized principle transformation in the framework of the Model Driven Engineerin...

This paper introduces a prototype system, SketchingMetal, that enables individuals with no manufacturing expertise to quickly design a restricted domain of precise, manufacturable, three-dimensional geometric models. Unlike previous systems that generate plastic prototypes from more general geometric models, models created with SketchingMetal can be manufactured automatically as functional mach...

Larger display surfaces are becoming increasingly available due to multi-monitor capability built into many systems, in addition to the rapid decrease in their costs. However, little is known about the performance benefits of using these larger surfaces compared to traditional single-monitor displays. In addition, it is not clear that current software designs and interaction techniques have bee...

Children today use computer based application in various activities especially for learning and education. Many of these tools and application such as the Computer Aided Pronunciation Training (CAPT) systems enable children to explore and experience them with little supervision from the adults. In order for these tools and application to have maximum effect on the children’s learning and educat...

Although proposed to accommodate new technologies and the continuous evolution of business processes and business rules, current model-driven approaches do not meet the flexibility and dynamic needs of feature-rich enterprise applications. This paper illustrates the use of interpreted runtime models instead of static models or generative runtime models, i.e. those that depend on code generation...