Jeffrey Nichols

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• Jeffrey Nichols
• Personal Universal Controller (PUC)
• Goal Address usability problems with appliances
  by moving their interfaces to a handheld device
• Progress Designed an appliance description
  language and built a system that automatically
  generates interfaces for remotely controlling a
  wide-range of appliances
• Future Work Generate interfaces that are
  consistent with prevoius interfaces and generate
  aggregate interfaces that allow control of
  multiple connected appliances

http//www.pebbles.hcii.cmu.edu/puc/
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Model-Based UIs Automatic Generation

• Jeffrey Nichols and Andrew Faulring

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Model-Based Issues

• Is automatic generation needed?
• We think, yes
• For combining models that are not all available
  at design-time
• For customizing interfaces for areas of
  high-diversity (e.g. per user, per system
  configuration)
• For enabling more diversity in areas where
  diversity has been restricted by software
  requirements (e.g. physical devices)

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Research Questions

• What domains (besides dialog boxes) might
  automatic generation be good for?
• Combining models from multiple sources to create
  new user interfaces
• What combinations are interesting?
• Multiple presentation models
• Old and new appliance models
• Multiple appliance models (with connections)

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More Model-Based Issues

• How can modeling languages be improved?
• How to integrate rapid prototyping with
  model-based development?
• How can we use model-based techniques with new
  interface styles (e.g. tangible, gestural, etc.)?