Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided for a scalable user interface system. A user interface is divided into general reusable user interface components and application specific user interface components. Next profiles are created for user interfaces based upon server capabilities and client side device capabilities and reusable user interface components are built for use in multiple profiles. Defined user interface scalability strategies are executed at runtime to build a user interface description using the user interface components. In this way, a user interface can be built from a user interface description by apportioning the building of the user interface description between a server and a client side device using the profiles. At the server, user interface components stored in memory are used to build a first portion of the user interface description while a second portion of the user interface description is built at the client side device and is combined with the first portion received from the server.

Abstract: A system and method for visualizing the location and movement of people in facilities. The facility is provided with a plurality of sensors such as RF or IR sensors that communicate with a badge worn by each individual and selected physical assets in the facility. The sensors send data to a processor which displays the data on a monitor in a form that permits ready visualization of the individuals, and allows the observer to select information as needed. The display may directly indicate certain specifics about an individual based on data stored in the processor or entered by the observer.

Abstract: A method of domain modeling for use in generating a computer application. The method includes selecting a generic signature for a general domain element type, creating a specific signature for a specific domain element within the domain element type, and saving the specific signature to a memory for use in the computer application. The generic signature including a plurality of attributes. Creating the specific signature includes populating each of the plurality of attributes with a specific attribute datum.

Abstract: A method of user interface design including creating an interaction requirement and generating one or more available presentations configured to meet the interaction requirement, where generating includes identifying available presentation devices based upon the device model and meeting the interaction requirement and determining one or more available presentation elements configured to meet the interaction requirement. The device model includes a plurality of attributes and characteristics of a presentation device meeting the interaction requirement. Each presentation element is configured to be communicated to a user via at least one of the available presentation devices. The method further includes assigning each of the plurality of available presentations a usability score, selecting one or more of the available presentations based at least in part upon the usability score of each of the available presentations, and designing a user interface incorporating one of the available presentations.

Abstract: An interaction design system (12) may be used by a designer to design a user interface. The designer supplies the interaction design system with a domain model (22) that contains information characterizing an application in a domain, a user model (24) that contains information characterizing the users of the user interface, a task model (26) that contains task primitives to be performed between the user and the user interface and the type of information required by the task primitives, and a device model (28) that contains information characterizing the interaction delivery devices that are available to deliver the user interface. The interaction design system (10) then matches the interaction delivery devices in the device model (28) to the type of information required by the task primitives and to the information characterizing the users, matches presentation objects (30) to the task primitives and to the information of the domain model (22), and generates the user interface based on the matches (32).