AUIF: An Adaptive User Interface Framework for Multiple Devices

Nowadays, it is becoming increasingly common for users to use multiple devices in their daily lives. Smartphones, tablets, laptops and other devices constitute a multi-device environment for users. Making full use of the multi-device environments so that users can work conveniently and efficiently has been a challenging problem in the field of user interface (UI) research. Here, we present AUIF, a web-based application framework for dynamically creating distributed user interfaces (DUIs) across multiple devices. We propose multi-device collaboration patterns and UI components allocation algorithm and combine them in our implementation. A prototype system based on AUIF is designed as an illustration of concept. Finally, user experiments based on the prototype system are carried out, and the result verifies the effectiveness of AUIF in actual use.