Nadine Baptiste-Jessel

Adapting Presentation and Interaction with XML Documents to User Preferences

In this paper, we introduce the concept of “user policies”. The objective of policies is to specify user preferences in terms of presentation and interaction with information. Using this concept, the presentation/interaction with information will be adapted to user’s needs, making information more accessible. We define several kinds of policies (navigation, exploration, presentation, etc.). The concepts of “presentation policies” and “navigation policies” are studied in this article. As XML is the standard for encoding electronic information, we will apply the concept of policies to the browsing of XML Documents.

Personalization of user interfaces for browsing XML content using transformations built on end-user requirements

Personalization of user interfaces for browsing content is a key concept to ensure content accessibility. In this direction, we introduce concepts that result in the generation of personalized multimodal user interfaces for browsing XML content. Users requirements concerning the browsing of a specific content type can be specified using user-friendly description languages. According to these specifications, transformation rules are generated in order to produce personalized user interfaces for browsing specific content types. With the emergence of the semantic Web and connected XML applications, such customized multimodal user interfaces can be useful for many kinds of users, especially individuals with various type of impairment.

Using SVG and a Force Feedback Mouse to Enable Blind People to Access “Graphical” Web Based Documents

We present a system that enables a blind user to access 2D WEB based “graphical” documents. After introducing the SVG format and the Force Feedback Mouse, we present how, in a WEB browser application, we associate force, voice and sound feedback.

BMML: A Mark-Up Language for Braille Music

The need of an interchange format for music notation led to several XML encoding initiatives and among them to MusicXML, a de facto standard format supported by market leaders. The result is that music scores can be shared between applications and between users, delivered through the web and/or archived independently by the application that generated them. Braille music is a specific music notation for blind users, written in linear format, character by character. Traditionally Braille scores in electronic format are archived or shared as text files, with only character information dependent on some translation table. The available XML formats for music notation are not suitable to cover this specific notation. We present our approach to the problem and the key design concepts behind Braille Music Mark-up Language, developed as an open format by the EU funded CONTRAPUNCTUS[1] project.

Generating Adaptable User Interfaces for Browsing XML Documents User Interfaces Adaptation Using User Profiles of Applications Policies

Personalization of user interfaces for browsing content is a key concept to ensure content accessibility. In this direction, we introduce concepts that result in the generation of personalized multimodal user interfaces for browsing XML content. Users requirements concerning the browsing of such or such content type can be specified using these concepts and associated description languages. With the emergence of the semantic Web and connected XML applications, such multimodal user interfaces can be useful for many kinds of users.

A transformation framework for building personalized user interfaces for browsing XML content

Personalization of user interfaces for browsing content is a key concept to ensure content accessibility. In this direction, we introduce concepts that result in the generation of personalized multimodal user interfaces for browsing XML content. Users requirements concerning the browsing of a specific content type can be specified using user-friendly description languages. According to these specifications, a sequence of several transformations is used to produce personalized multimodal user interfaces for browsing specific content types. With the emergence of the semantic Web and connected XML applications, such customized multimodal user interfaces can be useful for many kinds of users, especially individuals with various type of impairment.

Use of Force Feedback Pointing Devices for Blind Users

We discuss in this paper the possible uses of force feedback pointing devices for a blind user. We use the Wingman Force Feedback Mouse® and the PHANTOM®, associated with a sound feedback. First, we set the definitions of the gesture interaction and we propose the interaction loop relative to these devices. Related works enable us to raise the limit of their use and to specify an adapted framework: the relative localization. The applications that we are developing are based on this applicative context. We present our application of geography which shows the relative positions of the areas on a map. We finish with a presentation of our 3-dimensional application prototype, which shows the relative position of the human body elements. In order to automate the treatment as much as possible, we have based our applications on XML data files: the SVG for the geographical maps and the X3D will be retained for the format of the forms in 3D.

Accès à l'information dans les réseaux socionumériques

L’analyse des reseaux sociaux est menee dans le domaine des sciences sociales depuis les annees 1930. Le premier enjeu pour realiser ces analyses se situe dans la collecte de l’information sur la structure de ces reseaux et sur leurs activites. Avec l’avenement du Web 2.0 et des technologies du Web semantique, plusieurs mecanismes de collecte d’information sont desormais envisageables. Cependant, tres peu d’utilisateurs sont conscients des facilites d’atteinte et de manipulation de leurs traces d’activites et de leurs donnees personnelles de plus en plus rendus publics sur les reseaux socionumeriques en particulier. Dans cet article, nous etudions les differentes approches permettant l’acces aux donnees dans les reseaux socionumeriques, en nous interessant ? dans le cas precis de Facebook ? a la qualite et la quantite de l’information accessible, et par consequent, aux risques potentiels d’atteinte et de manipulation des donnees personnelles des utilisateurs par des tiers. Une experimentation menee via l’API Facebook (sur 7 081 profils) demontre l’accessibilite a un nombre important d’informations pouvant permettre de reconstruire automatiquement le reseau reel d’un utilisateur a partir de son profil.

Personalization of XML Content Browsing Based on User Preferences

Personalization of user interfaces for browsing content is a key concept to ensure content accessibility. In this direction, we introduce concepts that result in the generation of personalized multimodal user interfaces for browsing XML content. User requirements concerning the browsing of a specific content type can be specified by means of user-friendly description languages. According to these specifications, transformation rules are generated and applied to content to produce personalized user interfaces for browsing the content. With the emergence of the semantic Web and connected XML applications, such customized multimodal user interfaces can be helpful to many kinds of users, especially to individuals with various types of impairment.

A process based on the representation of end-user requirements for generating adaptable user interfaces for browsing XML content

Personalization of user interfaces (UI) for browsing content is a key concept to ensure content accessibility. In this direction, we introduce concepts for representing end-user requirements that result in the generation of personalized user interfaces for browsing XML content. Representation of these requirements and the process for generating UI are described and illustrated using a case study. With the emergence of the semantic Web and connected XML applications, such personalized user interfaces can be useful for many kinds of users.