20100926 - Pestina, ...Mobile/Wireless User Interfaces...

Development frameworks for mobile/wireless user interfaces: A comparative study by Pestina, Simona, M.Comp.Sc., Concordia University (Canada), 2002 , 127 pages; AAT MQ68478 My Interest: 1) WAP Usability Findings from Nielsen. 2) Constraints of mobile devices. 3) Strengths & Weakness of each Framework. Action: To read specific parts of Dissertation in future. Research Goal In this research, we investigated the development frameworks for mobile/wireless Web applications with a special consideration to the user interface (UI) component. Motivation The Web applications running on small mobile devices cannot support the full range of the traditional desktop Web functionality. This is due to the devices' physical and computational constraints. Research Outcome We described how the mobile devices' constraints and their increased diversity and connectivity are affecting the traditional UI development tools, methods and concepts. We also analyzed the development impacts that are emerging from the necessity of building consistent user interfaces for different mobile devices and platforms. In particular, we discussed how the current development frameworks could satisfy the constrained mobile environment while preserving the cross-platform usability. We conducted a comparative survey of these frameworks using different criteria such as data processing, data interactivity and presentation techniques, data transfer, security support, cross-platform or device specific availability, scalability, UI modeling techniques, UI delivery mechanism. We exposed the strengths and weaknesses of each framework while highlighting the areas for future improvements. Our survey highlighted the need for a "universal" high-level framework for mobile UIs development. Comments: Softcopy Dissertation is scanned version; can't copy and paste; difficult to blog about it. 2. CHAPTER II – USABILITY CHALLENGES FOR MOBILE / WIRELESS INTERACTIVE APPLICATIONS 2.2 WAP Usability Findings from Nielsen Survey 2.3 Mobile Computing Guidelines 3.1 HTML and Web Clipping Framework 3.2 WAP Framework 3.3 XML Framework 3.4 UIML Framework 3.5 JAVA 2 Micro Edition (J2ME) Framework