Fostering a Symbiotic Handheld Environment

  • Authors:
  • Mandayam Raghunath;Chandra Narayanaswami;Claudio Pinhanez

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Computer
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

To predict the future of handhelds, the authors borrowed concepts from biology and look at the current computational environment as a jungle in which multiple device types compete for market survival. As in nature, the fittest devices rapidly increase their presence and succeed. Developers have already explored symbiosis to over-come some handheld limitations. In the symbiotic relationship between PDAs and larger desktop computers, for example, the desktop's full-size keyboard and larger display simplify application and data management on the linked PDA.