Fluid Project BOF
Description
Lead by the Adaptive Technology Resource Centre at the University of Toronto, the Fluid Project is a proposed collaboration among the University of Toronto, UC Berkeley, the UK Open University, Cambridge, the University of British Columbia, York University, and others. The project intends to address the challenges shared challenges of by community source projects in creating user interfaces which take into account usability, design, accessibility, and internationalization concerns throughout the development process.
The Fluid project proposes to develop both presentation technologies and community practices processes to support the design, development, and testing of inclusive user interface components. These flexible UI components designs will be shared and implemented across community source applications including Sakai, uPortal, Moodle, and Kuali Student.
The Fluid architecture will enable the creation and reuse of well-designed and easily configurable accessible AJAX components. The core framework will extend existing presentation frameworks such as RSF to ensure that UI components are loosely-coupled from application logic, easily composableeasy to use, and adaptable to individual and institutional needs. The Fluid Project will also provide common supports for building develop shared standards for creating skins and global customizations of branding and appearance which site-wide customizations which can work across applications, simplifying the process of skinning and customizing a suite of applications in the University environmentinstitutional branding and customization. The framework will be driven by the design and sharing of exemplary user interface components.
Join us on Thursday afternoon at 4:30 pm at the Fluid Project BOF to learn more about the Fluid project.Presenters: our project plan and to share your comments, questions, and feedback.
Where and When
4:30 - 5:30 pm
Thursday, December 7, 2006
Room: International 7
Presenters
Colin Clark and Jutta Treviranus,
Adaptive Technology Resource Centre, University of Toronto