Interface tailoring for mobile computing devices

One of the major challenges in user interface (UI) development is device heterogeneity. Currently, devices such as smart phones, PDAs, and PCs are already capable of providing ubiquitous access to the Internet. In the near future, we are expecting other devices to support the same capabilities. As the number of these devices proliferates, the conventional approach of developing a UI for each device results in too much redundant effort. To meet this challenge, we propose a new fragmentation methodology using a general indexing technique. It allows users to fragment a UI into a number of fragments for the target device. This innovative fragmentation methodology has been evaluated in terms of processing time, and a comprehensive comparison made between the processing time of adaptation with fragmentation and the processing time of adaptation without fragmentation.