REMEXLabs Open Source Repositories

GitHub repositories maintained by the research group REMEX at Stuttgart Media University.

This page gives an overview of the GitHub repositories maintained by the research group REMEX at Stuttgart Media University (Hochschule der Medien). The repositories or software projects have been grouped under a few headings, even though they sometimes originate from different research projects, student projects, etcetera.

User Interface Personalisation

ASpanel

The ASpanel or Accessibility Support Panel is a component that can be built into webpages to allow users to adapt certain aspects of the site to their needs. This panel is mainly used in the online banking simulation mentioned below.

gwc-chrome

GPII website connector for Chrome (gwc-chrome) is a browser extension for Chrome that enables a web application to communicate with the GPII's local Flow Manager.

AWC

Adaptive Web Components Framework (AWC). Deployed at darwin.gpii.eu; requires Google Chrome.

This work is based on the World Wide Web Consortium's work on web components, which is still work in progress. Google Chrome has the most advanved implementation of web components; see Jon Rimmer's article Are We Componentized Yet?

For an introduction to Accessible Web Components, see the YouTube video Adaptive Web Components 2016 - Introduction.

Darwin

Darwin: a Javascript framework for adaptive Web Components with GPII support.

OpenAPE

OpenAPE stands for “Open Accessibility Personalisation Extension”. For more information, see the OpenAPE website.

Adaptive Online Banking Simulation

For an overview of the features of the online banking simulation, see HdM Adaptable Online Banking Solution 2016 on YouTube.

For a demo of an older version of the simulation, see HdM Adaptable Online Banking Simulation (2014) on YouTube.

hdm-bank

hdm-bank: online banking user interface adapted to people with cognitive disabilities. (Continuation of bachelor thesis by Mario Erazo in 2014.)

pictofy

pictofy is a client-side plugin that enables pictogram support in webpages. (Continuation of project by Alexander von Bernuth.)

Cloud4all Statistical Matchmaker

The following repositories contain code related to the statistical matchmaker developed for the Cloud4all project (November 2011 - October 2015):

Smart Home

Gamificaton

Bubbles

Bubbles: community server that uses gamification in the context of the development of (accessible) application. See also Gamification and Accessibility on the Prosperity4All website. Deployed at bubbles.gpii.eu.
See also the YouTube video Introduction to the Bubbles Project.

Accessible Gamification

Accessible Gamification is a short online course created in 2017 for the MOOC platform edX. This single-page version of the course contains all the videos and assignments from this course.

Other Themes

PersonaBrowser

PersonaBrowser. See the YouTube video PersonaBrowser - A User-Centered Classification Schema for WCAG.

Archived Repositories

The following repositories have been archived and will not be updated:

Forked Or Branched Repositories

The following repositories contain code that was not developed by Remex. Some of these repositories are the output of student projects, while other repositories are used in projects that are still running.