The abstraction-link-view paradigm: using constraints to connect user interfaces to applications
CHI '92 Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems
Charting past, present, and future research in ubiquitous computing
ACM Transactions on Computer-Human Interaction (TOCHI) - Special issue on human-computer interaction in the new millennium, Part 1
A Unified Concept of Style and its Place in User Interface Design
HCI '96 Proceedings of HCI on People and Computers XI
Thinglab--a constraint-oriented simulation laboratory.
Thinglab--a constraint-oriented simulation laboratory.
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The current generation of mobile context-aware applications must respond to a complex collection of changes in the state of the system and in its usage environment. We argue that dynamic links, as used in user interface software for many years, can be extended to support the change-sensitivity necessary for such systems. We describe an implementation of dynamic links in the Paraglide Anaesthetist's Clinical Assistant, a mobile context-aware system to help anaesthetists perform pre- and post-operative patient assessment. In particular, our implementation treats dynamic links as first class objects. They can be stored in XML documents and transmitted around a network. This allows our system to find and understand new sources of data at run-time.