Device-spanning multimodal user interfaces
Elmar Braun, Andreas Härtl · 2003
Despite the large variety of mobile devices available today, none of them is without flaws: small devices like cell phones are very limited regarding interaction, while larger devices like laptops lack true mobility. We are investigating how both mobility and rich interaction can be achieved by federating small mobile devices with other interactive devices on demand. However, this raises the question how user interfaces can be authored if the target device is not static and known, but rather a changing set depending on user context. We approach this using device independent widgets, which are mapped to device specific widgets at runtime.