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Towards Automatic Level-of-Detail 2D Interfaces Generation

2025· article· W4416403821 on OpenAlexaff
Zhenbang He, Barrett Ens

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Language
FieldComputer Science
TopicInteractive and Immersive Displays
Canadian institutionsUniversity of British Columbia, Okanagan Campus
Fundersnot available
KeywordsUser interfaceScalabilityContext (archaeology)Interface (matter)Task (project management)Key (lock)VisualizationWearable computer

Abstract

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Designing adaptive user interfaces that dynamically adjust their complexity based on user context and task demands is a critical challenge in eXtended Reality (XR) and mobile environments. In this project, we explore a novel system for automatic generation of 2D user interfaces (UIs) at varying Level-of-Detail (LoD) based on an existing UI design. Given a source 2D interface and a user-defined LoD threshold, our system generates adapted interface versions that preserve essential functionality and information while reducing visual and structural complexity as needed. Our approach analyzes the UI’s hierarchical structure and models entropy-based UI complexity as a composite metric of structural entropy, visual importance distribution, and semantic type, thereby enabling automated simplification while preserving usability. Although the system is still under development, we outline the core design rationale, key architectural components, and envisioned use cases. This project aims to contribute a computational and scalable method for context-aware UI adaptation, with potential applications in XR, wearable computing, and mobile environments. Future work will involve implementing the generation engine, conducting expert reviews, and evaluating user performance across different applications.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.003
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.012
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.003
Threshold uncertainty score0.013

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0030.012
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.001
Scholarly communication0.0020.002
Open science0.0020.003
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.091
GPT teacher head0.331
Teacher spread0.240 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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