Víctor López-Jaquero

University of Castilla-La Mancha · High School of Computer Engineering of Albacete

The joint use of technologies such as IoT, Artificial Intelligence, Cloud Computing or Virtualization has fostered the development of digital twins (DT). A DT is described as a physical entity, its virtual counterpart and the data connections between both. Digital twins are increasingly being used to enrich physical entities by exploiting different...

The increasing number of people with impairments and the lack of specialists has led to a loss of efficiency to deliver proper treatments from National healthcare systems. In this light, telerehabilitation can play an important role as patients can perform certain therapies at home. Consequently, telerehabilitation systems must support delivering b...

The increased life expectancy poses certain challenges such as bringing the required facilities to the elderly or infirm to help them keep their autonomy as long as possible. At any age, we are all prone to diseases or accidents that can affect our autonomy for activities we perform daily, the so-called Activities of Daily Living (ADL). After the a...

Rehabilitation encompasses a wide variety of activities aimed at reducing the impact of injuries and disabilities by applying different exercises. Frequently, such exercises are carried out at home as a repetition of the same movements or tasks to achieve both motor learning and the necessary cortical changes. Although this increases the patients’...

The development of app for mobile devices poses extra challenges to the ones already present in the development of the so-called traditional applications. The interaction capabilities differ from those found in desktop applications, which must be carefully considered to produce a natural way of interacting with mobile devices. Another relevant aspe...

Welcome to EICS, the Engineering Interactive Computing Systems community, PACMHCI/EICS journal, and annual conference! In this short article, we introduce newcomers to the field and to our community with an overview of what EICS is and how it positions with respect to other venues in Human-Computer Interaction, such as CHI, UIST, and IUI, highlight...

The use of computers in the e-Health domain is becoming increasingly common, since technology is present in most aspects of our lives. In the rehabilitation field in particular, some additional issues requiring the use of computer-assisted therapies arise. On the one hand, there is a scarce availability of rehabilitation specialists and centers to...

There is a growing interest on context-aware systems in recent years. Context-aware systems are able to change their behaviour depending on new conditions regarding the user, the platform and the environment. These systems are evolving towards interacting with the user in a transparent and ubiquitous manner, especially by means of different types o...

Some people require special treatments for rehabilitating physical, cognitive or even social capabilities after an accident or degenerative illness. However, the ever-increasing costs of looking after an aging population, many of whom suffer chronic diseases, is straining the finances of healthcare systems around Europe. This situation has given ri...

Acquired Brain Injury (ABI) is becoming an epidemic problem in our society, especially among older adults, being known as “the Silent Epidemic”. People with ABI demand solutions in research that offer them with a relearning process such that they can recover not only their physical skills but also their cognitive abilities. In this context, the inh...

As in any other system, an accurate requirements specification is essential to developing a collaborative system, which has special kinds of requirements that are hard to specify by means of current Requirements Engineering techniques. The Collaborative Systems Requirement Modeling Framework (CSRMF) was developed to address this problem; the origin...

The growing interest in computer assisted rehabilitation to alleviate the lack of enough facilities and specialists to cope with current demand for rehabilitation, especially related to the ageing of population, has pushed forward challenges and innovation related to the design and development of such systems. One of the aspects present in rehabili...

Tele-rehabilitation is one of the main domains where Information and Communication Technologies (ICT) have been proven useful to move healthcare from care centers to patients' home. Moreover, patients, especially those carrying out a physical therapy, cannot use a traditional Window, Icon, Menu, Pointer (WIMP) system, but they need to interact in a...

Context – Collaborative computer games have evolved from single-player to massively multiplayer awareness-demanding games, usually involving collaboration to achieve team goals. As a consequence of such evolution, the players of these games should be provided with awareness information that enable them to perform collaborative tasks within their te...

In recent years, much research has focused its attention on Ambient Intelligence (AmI). Its potential applications to smart homes, hospitals, health monitoring or daily life assistance make this paradigm a very promising field of research that can have a great and positive impact in our lives. The combination of AmI environments and Multi-Agent Sys...

The way people interact with computers has greatly evolved over the last years. Nowadays, WIMP (Windows, Icons, Menus, Pointer) systems are being replaced and Post-WIMP systems are becoming more and more popular as new interaction techniques, based on virtual reality, gesture recognition, weara-ble computers and so on, are becoming more usual for e...

The growing demand of interactive Digital TeleVision (iDTV) is huge, given its potential ability to provide highly personalized services and to access the Web. However these advantages can be missed by difficulties of using it, especially accessibility barriers. This paper analyses interactive digital TV accessibility in a technical level, consider...

La Calidad de Interacción es un factor muy a tener en cuenta en cualquier tipo de aplicación y, por supuesto, el diseño de una adaptación a nivel de interfaz de usuario de una aplicación concre-ta, también debería considerar aspectos relativos a la calidad. Descuidar la evaluación de la calidad puede producir fácilmente aplicaciones que no cumplan...

Interaction Quality is an important issue for any kind of application, and of course the design of the user interface adaptation facilities of an application should consider quality aspects too. Neglecting quality assessment can easily produce applications that do not meet users nor designers expectations. In this sense, previous works have illustr...

New technologies are giving rise to new interaction paradigms that go beyond the classic WIMP (Window, Icon, Menu and Pointing) interfaces. At the same time, theses new interfaces, called Post-WIMP need the modeling languages to be adapted in order to be suitable for a development process. In this paper, the W3C Task Meta-model is analyzed within a...

Ambient Intelligence (AmI) is a very active topic of research that is gaining more and more attention because of its characteristics, transparency and intelligence. Older people is one of the collectives that can take advantage of the use of AmI systems because, thanks to these characteristics, AmI systems can focus on older adults’ real needs so t...

La calidad es importante para cualquier tipo de producto software. Por ejemplo, la usabilidad es un factor determinante en el éxito de un producto, siendo éste uno de los factores de la calidad de un producto software. El proceso de diseño, ejecución y evaluación de la adaptación no escapa por supuesto a esta necesidad de consideración de la calida...

Context CSRML Tool 2012 is a Requirements Engineering CASE Tool for the Goal-Oriented Collaborative Systems Requirements Modeling Language (CSRML). Objective This work aims at evaluating the usability of CSRML Tool 2012, thus identifying any possible usability flaw to be solved in the next releases of the application, as well as giving a general o...

Similarly to what happens when designing a single-user system, designers and developers will probably have to address some design problems that have often appeared previously in some other developments. This kind of recurrent problem can be identified, documented and captured in a design pattern that provides a reusable solution to a common problem...

Novice users usually find it hard to manipulate models by using traditional Model-Driven Development techniques, because of the gap between the modeling tools and these users’ mental models. In this context, multi-touch interfaces emerge as an alternative to make it easier for novice users to interact with the models by using natural gestures and t...

Computer supported cooperative work (CSCW) environments enable users to interact with each other by using computers to conveniently share relevant data across the user interface. Awareness is an essential requirement in CSCW to convey precise information about the context in which the work in group is taking place, contributing thus to collaboratio...

Collaborative systems are becoming increasingly important, because they enable several users to work together and carry out collaboration, communication and coordination tasks. We have to highlight that, to perform these tasks, the users have to be aware of other users’ actions, usually by means of a set of awareness techniques. Usually, the specif...

This work describes the CASE tool that provides support for CSRML (Collaborative Systems Requirements Modeling Language), an i* extension for specifying CSCW systems requirements. The tool has been implemented as a Visual Studio 2012 extension by using the Visualization and Modeling SDK. It supports all the CSRML characteristics, such as the specif...

Context. A collaborative system is a special kind of software whose users can perform collaboration, communication and collaboration tasks. These systems usually have a high number of non-functional requirements, resulting from the users’ need of being aware of other users with whom to collaborate, that is, the workspace awareness. Objective. This...

Awareness support in model-driven architecture approaches is almost nonexistent. Although it is a required feature for the development of collaborative applications, the consideration of awareness in development methodologies and tools has been hindered by the lack of model-driven oriented conceptual models. This work presents an extension to the u...

The exigencies and the particular characteristics of website development are a great challenge for designers and developers. There are many differences between typical software application development and website development. In website development, the presentation component; visual and graphical, plays an important role, which is not that importa...

As for single user systems, a proper specification of software requirements is a very important issue to achieve the quality of the collaborative systems. Nevertheless, many of these requirements are from a non-functional nature because are related to the user's need of being aware of other users, that is, the workspace awareness. In order to model...

Un sistema colaborativo es una aplicación software que permite a varios usuarios llevar a cabo tareas de colaboración, comunicación y coordinación. Para realizar dichas tareas, los usuarios tienen que ser conscientes de las acciones de los demás usuarios, usualmente por medio de una serie de técnicas de awareness. En trabajos anteriores determinamo...

Awareness support in MDA technologies is virtually nonexistent. Furthermore, until recently there was no conceptual model suitable for representing Awareness support in model based architectures. Here, we introduce an extension of UsiXML user interface description language to support Awareness as an information requirement. UsiXML aims to describe...

People with disabilities constitute a collective that requires continuous and customized attention, since their conditions or abilities are affected with respect to specific standards. People with Acquired Brain Injury (ABI), or those who have suffered brain injury at some stage after birth, belong to this collective. The treatment these people req...

A collaborative system is a distributed software which allows several users to work together and carry out collaboration, communication and coordination tasks. To perform these tasks, the users have to be aware of other user’s actions, usually by means of a set of awareness techniques. When we are defining a collaborative system, the awareness tech...

A collaborative system is software which allows several users to work together and carry out collaboration, communication and coordination tasks. To perform these tasks, the users have to be aware of other user's actions, usually by means of a set of awareness techniques. In previous works, we found by means of empirical studies that the most suita...

Model driven development of user interfaces is based on the transformation of an abstract specification into the final user interface the user will interact with. The design of transformation rules to carry out this transformation process is a key issue in any model-driven user interface development approach. In this paper, we introduce T:XML, an i...

In this paper a discussion of how supportive user interfaces can be used in user interfaces with adaptation capabilities is provided. This discussion in made using as reference ISATINE adaptation framework, where the stages for a proper adaptation process and the tasks the user can get involved during the adaptation process are clearly described. M...

In a mod elb a sed user in t er fa ce d evelop men t environment, user inter face gener ation or adaptation r ules are required in order to either generate the user interface or adapt it. The design of these rules is becoming more and more important, since the current trends in the development of software in general, and user interface design is no...

With the evolution of technology, and especially of the Internet, a growing interest has appeared for on-line education. The many advantages of e-Learning have made this teaching philosophy an ideal partner for teachers, either as a complement to regular education or as a substitute for traditional education. The development of an e-Learning system...

Currently, new types of information are available to applications. This incoming stream of data can be processed to improve user experience. User experience can be enhanced to present contents to users in a better manner, or to provide software artefacts to improve their interaction with the environment. The wide range of interaction design capabil...

The specification of model adaptation and generation rules is a topic of great interest for the user interface development community, since there are more and more approaches supporting the model-based approach. The ubiquitousness in interaction and the different user profiles are not the only challenges when designing interactive systems. Furtherm...

This book gathers the latest experience of experts, research teams and leadning organizations involved in computer-aided design of user interactive applications. This area investigates how it is desirable and possible to support, to facilitate and to speed up the requirements engineering life cycle of any interactive system: requirements engineerin...

Artificial Intelligence tries to simulate humans’ capabilities by means of machines. This challenge, pushed in the world-famous Dartmouth conference in 1956, has focused an enormous amount of interest and effort of the research community in the last 50 years. Although after all these years the community has not been able to achieve to euphoric pred...

The rehabilitation of a patient with acquired brain injury begins during the acute treatment phase. It is important to focus on maximizing the patient's capabilities at home and in the community. Positive reinforcement helps recovery by improving self-esteem and promoting independence. In this context, user interface design is very important for se...

The advent of new advances in mobile computing has changed the manner we do our daily work, even enabling us to perform collaborative activities. However, current groupware approaches do not offer an integrating and efficient solution that jointly tackles the flexibility and heterogeneity inherent to mobility as well as the awareness aspects intrin...

Adaptation capabilities are becoming more and more popular in applications due to several facts, including heterogeneity of users, devices, and physical contexts of use where applications are currently used. Adaptation is not per se good, and poor adaptations usually lead to disappointed users who reject or disable adaptation mechanisms. Therefore,...

The exigencies and the particular characteristics of website development are a great challenge for designers and developers. There are many differences between typical software application development and website development. In website development, the presentation component; visual and graphical, plays an important role, which is not that importa...

Resumen La posibilidad de caracterización, documentación, difusión y reutilización de las habilidades tanto prácticas como teóricas (conocimientos y expe-riencias) relacionadas con el diseño, desarrollo y evaluación de productos interactivos es una labor de singular importancia y a ella han dedicado esfuerzos considerables, plasmados en publicacio-...

Task modelling has proven useful as a basis for user interfaces (IU) design. Although different models have been pushed ConcurTaskTrees (CTT) notation has become without any doubt the most extended notation for task model specification. However, this notation suffers from a lack of modularity, making the creation and modification of real-world appl...

Task modeling has become one of the cornerstones of model-based user interface design. In this paper, a task-based approach to user interfaces design is introduced. This approach is supported by a tool, namely IdealXML, that allows for the animation of the specified user interfaces to generate a hi-fi prototype of the future user interface while st...

Resumen Con el propósito de cubrir el proceso completo para llevar a cabo la adaptación de la interfaz de usuario, en este artículo se extiende la taxonomía para la adaptación de interfaces de usuario propuesta por Dieterich mediante la especialización de la teoría de la acción de Norman en el marco de trabajo ISATINE. Este marco de trabajo descomp...

In order to cover the complete process of user interface adaptation, this paper extends Dieterich’s taxonomy of user interface adaptation by specializing Norman’s theory of action into the Isatine framework. This framework decomposes user interface adaptation into seven stages of adaptation: goals for adaptation, initiative, specification, applicat...

Task modeling has become one of the cornerstones of model-based user interface design. In this paper, a task-based approach to user interfaces design is introduced. This approach is supported by a tool, namely IDEALXML, that allows for the animation of the specified user interfaces to generate a hi-fi prototype of the future user interface while st...