TITLE:
Context-Based Mobile User Interface
AUTHORS:
Mao Zheng, Sihan Cheng, Qian Xu
KEYWORDS:
Pervasive Computing, Context-Aware Systems, Mobile User Interface, Adaption Tree
JOURNAL NAME:
Journal of Computer and Communications,
Vol.4 No.9,
July
19,
2016
ABSTRACT: Context awareness is increasingly gaining
applicability in interactive ubiquitous mobile computing systems. Each
context-aware application has its own set of behaviors to react to context modifications.
Hence, every software engineer needs to clearly understand the goal of the
development and to categorize the context in the application. We incorporate
context-based modifications into the appearance or the behavior of the
interface, either at the design time or at the run time. In this paper, we
present application behavior adaption to the context modification via a
context-based user interface in a mobile application. We are interested in a
context-based user interface in a mobile device that is automatically adapted
based on the context information. We use the adaption tree, named in our
methodology, to represent the adaption of mobile device user interface to
various context information. The context includes the user’s domain information
and dynamic environment changes. Each path in the adaption tree, from the root
to the leaf, presents an adaption rule. An e-commerce application is chosen to
illustrate our approach. This mobile application was developed based on the
adaption tree in the Android platform. The automatic adaption to the context
information has enhanced human-computer interactions.