Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Multiple User Interfaces allow people using mobile phones, lap tops, desk tops, palm tops or PDAs to access and read information from their central server or the internet in a coherent and consistent way and to communicate effectively with other users who may be using different devices. MUIs provide multiple views of the information according to the device used and co-ordinate communication between the users.

Multiple User Interfaces: Engineering and Applications Frameworks is the first work to describe user interface design for mobile and hand-held devices such as mobile phones. Given the proliferation of books on web site design in the late '90s, this promises to be the forerunner in a new wave of books dealing with the issues specific to small screens, limited memory and wireless transmission. It also deals with problems relating to multi-user functionality and sharing the same application over various platforms.

With such a unique and cutting-edge approach researchers and developers working on user interface design in companies manufacturing handsets and other portable devices, university HCI groups and companies providing web-based information services for delivery to hand-held devices will find this indispensable.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Acknowledgements (p. xv)
• About the Editors (p. xvii)
• Contributors (p. xix)
• Part I Basic Terminology, Concepts, and Challenges (p. 1)
• 1 Executive Summary and Book Overview (p. 3)
• 2 Multiple User Interfaces: Cross-Platform Applications and Context-Aware Interfaces (p. 11)
• Part II Adaptation and Context-Aware User Interfaces (p. 27)
• 3 A Reference Framework for the Development of Plastic User Interfaces (p. 29)
• 4 Temporal Aspects of Multi-Platform Interaction (p. 53)
• 5 The PALIO Framework for Adaptive Information Services (p. 69)
• Part III Development Technology and Languages (p. 93)
• 6 Building Multi-Platform User Interfaces with UIML (p. 95)
• 7 XIML: A Multiple User Interface Representation Framework for Industry (p. 119)
• 8 AUIT: Adaptable User Interface Technology, with Extended Java Server Pages (p. 149)
• Part IV Model-Based Development (p. 169)
• 9 Adaptive Task Modelling: From Formal Models to XML Representations (p. 171)
• 10 Multi-Model and Multi-Level Development of User Interfaces (p. 193)
• 11 Supporting Interactions with Multiple Platforms Through User and Task Models (p. 217)
• Part V Architectures, Patterns, and Development Toolkits (p. 239)
• 12 Migrating User Interfaces Across Platforms Using HCI Patterns (p. 241)
• 13 Support for the Adapting Applications and Interfaces to Context (p. 261)
• 14 A Run-time Infrastructure to Support the Construction of Distributed, Multi-User, Multi-Device Interactive Applications (p. 297)
• Part VI Evaluation and Social Impacts (p. 325)
• 15 Assessing Usability across Multiple User Interfaces (p. 327)
• 16 Iterative Design and Evaluation of Multiple Interfaces for a Complex Commercial Word Processor (p. 351)
• 17 Inter-Usability of Multi-Device Systems--A Conceptual Framework (p. 373)
• Subject Index (p. 387)