Approach for Enriching Distributed User Interfaces with Awareness

ABSTRACT Last technological advances have brought drastic changes affecting the way interactive systems are conceived. Designers have to tackle the fact that UIs could be controlled by multiple end users on diverse computing platforms in assorted environments. Novel UIs enable end users to distribute any widget and piece of information across different contexts. However, these kinds of facilities acquire an added value when they are ruled by the well-known awareness. It is necessary to devise new mechanisms to support distributed UIs flexible enough to deal with the diversity of contexts and group concerns. Presented work provides a series of contributions in DUIs support, with respect to introducing awareness. Author Keywords Distributed User Interface, Awareness, Plasticity, Context ACM Classification Keywords D.2.13 Reusable Software, Reuse Models. D.2.11 Software Architectures, Domain-specific architectures. D.1.m Programming techniques. Miscellaneous