Using handhelds and PCs together
Communications of the ACM
IEEE Internet Computing
ICrafter: A Service Framework for Ubiquitous Computing Environments
UbiComp '01 Proceedings of the 3rd international conference on Ubiquitous Computing
Theoretical and architectural support for input device adaptation
CUU '03 Proceedings of the 2003 conference on Universal usability
Controlling Home and Office Appliances with Smart Phones
IEEE Pervasive Computing
A flexible architecture for multimodal applications using federated devices
VLHCC '06 Proceedings of the Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing
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Computing devices do not offer every modality for interaction that a user might want to choose for interacting with an application. Instead of buying new hardware for extending the interaction capabilities, it should be possible to leverage modalities of independent existing devices that are in the vicinity. Therefore, an architecture has to be developed that gathers events on distributed devices and transfers them to the local device for execution. This allows the user to choose devices even at runtime that are better suited for a particular input task. For a convenient use, the system should support input that can be both independent and dependent from the application. Application-dependent input commands imply that meta-information about the application is provided. Since the system should allow the extension of existing applications, the meta-information has to be provided in a way that is transparent for the application. The following paper describes a system that realises those features.