A thin mobile client for a groupware application
Proceedings of the 2006 conference on Cooperative Systems Design: Seamless Integration of Artifacts and Conversations -- Enhanced Concepts of Infrastructure for Communication
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The wide availability of networked devices has become one of the main challenges for designers of collaborative applications. Mobile devices are not as "standardized" as stationary computers but much more diverse with respect to computing resources, connection bandwidth and display capabilities. This paper presents a framework for development of applications adaptive to the client's computing platform. The framework supports adaptation of both shared data and user interface to user preferences and display characteristics. Shared data and the user interface are each specified by an XML document. The user interface XML document specifies the interface by a generic "interface graph", which also includes the list ofthe valid data types. The generic interface graph is transformed into a device-dependant interface graph for individual client devices, using predefined device-specific mapping rules.