Distributed User Interfaces: Designing Interfaces for the Distributed Ecosystem

✍ Scribed by Niklas Elmqvist (auth.), José A. Gallud, Ricardo Tesoriero, Victor M.R. Penichet (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 207
• Series: Human-Computer Interaction Series
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The recent advances in display technologies and mobile devices are having an important effect on the way users interact with all kinds of devices (computers, mobile devices, laptops, tablets, and so on). These advances are opening up new possibilities for interaction, including the distribution of the UI (User Interface) among different devices. It implies that the UI can be split and composed, moved, copied or cloned among devices running the same or different operating systems. These new ways of manipulating the UI are considered under the emerging topic of Distributed User Interfaces (DUIs).

DUIs are related to the repartition of one or many elements, from one or many user interfaces, in order to support one or many users, to carry out one or many tasks, on one or many domains, in one or many contexts of use – each context of use consists of users, platforms, and environments.

The 20 chapters in the book cover the state-of-the-art, the foundations, and novel applications of DUIs including case studies and real scenarios.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Distributed User Interfaces: State of the Art....Pages 1-12
Distributed User Interfaces: Specification of Essential Properties....Pages 13-21
Distribution Primitives for Distributed User Interfaces....Pages 23-31
Extending MARIA to Support Distributed User Interfaces....Pages 33-40
Developing a DUI Based Operator Control Station....Pages 41-49
Software Infrastructure for Enriching Distributed User Interfaces with Awareness....Pages 51-58
Improving Ubiquitous Environments Through Collaborative Features....Pages 59-66
Activity-Based Computing – Metaphors and Technologies for Distributed User Interfaces....Pages 67-74
Improving E-Learning Using Distributed User Interfaces....Pages 75-85
ZOIL: A Design Paradigm and Software Framework for Post-WIMP Distributed User Interfaces....Pages 87-94
Lessons Learned from the Design and Implementation of Distributed Post-WIMP User Interfaces....Pages 95-102
Investigating the Design Space for Multi-display Environments....Pages 103-112
Distributed User Interfaces for Projector Phones....Pages 113-123
Drag & Share: A Shared Workspace for Distributed Synchronous Collaboration....Pages 125-132
Distributed Interactive Surfaces: A Step Towards the Distribution of Tangible and Virtual Objects....Pages 133-143
Multi-touch Collaborative DUI to Create Mobile Services....Pages 145-151
Co-Interactive Table: A New Facility Based on Distributed User Interfaces to Improve Collaborative Meetings....Pages 153-160
Exploring Distributed User Interfaces in Ambient Intelligent Environments....Pages 161-168
Visually Augmented Interfaces for Co-located Mobile Collaboration....Pages 169-176
Supporting Distributed Decision Making Using Secure Distributed User Interfaces....Pages 177-184
Back Matter....Pages 185-190

✦ Subjects

User Interfaces and Human Computer Interaction; Information Systems and Communication Service; Models and Principles; Information Systems Applications (incl. Internet); Multimedia Information Systems; User Interfaces and Human Computer I