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To avoid multiple works in designing user interfaces for different devices and interaction modalities, the use of a meta-language like UIML seems to be appropriate in order to start with a general UI description and provide mappings to different target devices. For the support of mobile devices and to improve re-usability of user interface definitions, we introduce the language DISL that modifies several parts of UIML and propose object oriented extensions with the conceptual language ODISL
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Schaefer, R., Bleul, S. (2007). Towards Object Oriented, Uiml-Based Interface Descriptions for Mobile Devices. In: Calvary, G., Pribeanu, C., Santucci, G., Vanderdonckt, J. (eds) Computer-Aided Design of User Interfaces V. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-5820-2_2
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