My Masters thesis:

MeMoML:
MeModules Markup Language
Towards a Meta-Language for aTangible User Interface (TUI) Toolkit

This masters thesis (see download section) took place in the framework of the MeModules project, which is about designing and implementing a system for creating and managing tangible shortcuts to multimedia information.

MeModules is a project of the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland, Fribourg in collaboration with the University of Fribourg.

MeMoML is a proposal of a meta-language for a tangible interface (TUI) framework.
The visual editor lets the user edit the parameters of a TUI environment by drag and drop. The MeMoML code is created "behind the scene".

The MeModules project will focus on two main goals: (a) the control of devices in the everyday life and also (b) information categorization in order to improve information access and retrieval.

MeModules are tangible links between the human memory and reachable information. Every tangible link needs to be described via a predefined scenario which involves three main parts: (1) physical objects, (2) communications processes, and (3) targeted actions.

In order to offer a flexible, device-independent and easy-to-use language for describing scenarios, a formal markup language, called MeMoML, which will be supported by a dedicated MeModules engine (MeMoEngine) is proposed. The MeMoEngine will identify objects, ensure communications processes, and execute actions, described in the scenario.

• MeMoML
• a formal language to be developed that describes, all the objects, the communication between the objects and the actions they produce
• Graphical user interface
• facilitates the interaction with the MeMoML language
• MeMoEngine
• handles the formally (with MeMoML) described scenario

I was working in the MISL group of Omar Abou Khaled at the University of Applied Sciences of Western Switzerland.