Toward a unified universal remote console standard
Gottfried Zimmermann, Toby Nixon, Marney Beard, Eran Sitnik, Bill LaPlant, Shari M. Trewin, Sharon J. Laskowski, Gregg C. Vanderheiden · 2003
Wireless communication technologies make it feasible to remotely control devices and services from virtually any mobile and stationary device. However, there is no stan-dard available today which would allow manufacturers to define an abstracted user interface for their product whose functionality can be instantiated and presented in different ways and modalities on a wide variety of controller tech-nologies, such as, phones, PDAs, and computers. Such a standard could also facilitate usability, natural language agents, internationalization, and accessibility.Participants in this SIG will present and discuss require-ments and current activities that could contribute to the de-velopment of a 'Universal Remote Console' standard. The goal of this SIG is to gather requirements, identify related research, development, commercial, and other activities, and to initiate an ongoing effort developing a unified Uni-versal Remote Console standard in the future.