Augmented Environments Lab

Abstract

The goal of the Kimura system is to augment traditional office computing environments in order to explore and evaluate the addition of visual peripheral displays to human-computer interfaces within an office environment. To do this, we employ multiple peripheral displays to display spatial, temporal, and navigational hypermedia relationships between users’ documents and context through desktop monitoring and context information gathering.

Reference

Hansen, Klaus Marius; MacIntyre, Blair; Mynatt, Elizabeth D.; Tullio, Joe and Voida, Steve. “Hypermedia in the Kimura System: Using Spatial, Temporal, and Navigational Relationships to Support Multitasking and Background Awareness.” Presented at ACM Hypertext 2001, Aarhus, Denmark. August 14-18, 2001

Abstract

One of the main challenges facing ubiquitous computing research and development is the difficulty of writing software for complex, heterogeneous distributed applications. In this paper, we evaluate automatic application partitioning as an approach to rapid prototyping of ubiquitous computing systems. Our approach allows developers to largely ignore distribution issues when developing their applications, by providing tools for generating distribution code automatically, under user guidance. We claim that automatic partitioning is promising for a large class of ubiquitous computing applications and discuss an example ubicomp application re-engineered using our approach.

Reference

Liogkas, N., MacIntyre, B., Mynatt E.D., Smaragdakis, Y., Tilevich, E. & Voida, S. (2004, July-September). Automatic partitioning for prototyping ubiquitous computing applications. IEEE Pervasive Computing, 3(3), 40-47.