AME: an adaptive modelling environment as a collaborative modelling tool

Abstract

The development of User Interfaces (UIs) is a complex task. Researches shown that one of the reasons is the lack of integrated views that often forces developers to implement suboptimal solutions. These integrated views refer to (1) the artifacts that are manipulated by the stakeholders during the UI development process and (2) how these artifacts relate to each other. To overcome the lack of integrated views in the context of model-based UI development this paper introduces AMEs, Adaptive Modelling Environments that support UI development by providing explicit representations of both the artifacts and their relations. A first prototype is depicted in a case study and illustrated with a video. Details of the architecture are provided.