Gallud J.A., Tesoriero R., Penichet V.M.R. (eds.) Distributed User Interfaces. Designing Interfaces for the Distributed Ecosystem

Springer, 2011. — 207 p.Recent advances in the field of display technology and mobile devices have had an important effect in the way users interact with all kind of devices (computers, mobile devices, laptop, electronic devices, and so on). These new possibilities of interaction include the distribution of the User Interface (UI) among different devices. The distribution of the user interface implies that the UI can be split and also composed, and also can be moved, copied or cloned among devices running the same or different operating system. These new possibilities are offered under the emerging topic of Distributed User Interfaces (DUI). DUI concerns the repartition of one or many elements from one or many user interfaces in order to support one or many users to carry out one or many tasks on one or many domains in one or many contexts of use, each context of use consisting of users, platforms, and environments.
This HCI Series volume presents a selection of research articles that have a common topic, as they include a number of relevant works in the field of Distributed User Interfaces. A reader interested in this topic will find some chapters dedicated to define the basic concepts and properties about DUIs. The volume also includes relevant applied research works that present frameworks, tools and some application domains where DUIs have played an important role.
This volume has been developed thanks to the collaboration of a number of relevant researchers in the field of HCI. The selection of the authors has been possible due to the First Workshop on Distributed User Interfaces, celebrated in Vancouver in the context of the CHI 2011 Conference.
This book has been organized in a set of 20 short chapters to cover different perspectives and application domain. The following lines are dedicated to present the contents of this volume.Distributed User Interfaces: State of the Art
Distributed User Interfaces: Specification of Essential Properties
Distribution Primitives for Distributed User Interfaces
Extending MARIA to Support Distributed User Interfaces
Developing a DUI Based Operator Control Station
Software Infrastructure for Enriching Distributed User Interfaces with Awareness
Improving Ubiquitous Environments Through Collaborative Features
Activity-Based Computing – Metaphors and Technologies for Distributed User Interfaces
Improving E-Learning Using Distributed User Interfaces
ZOIL: A Design Paradigm and Software Framework for Post-WIMP Distributed User Interfaces
Lessons Learned from the Design and Implementation of Distributed Post-WIMP User Interfaces
Investigating the Design Space for Multi-display Environments
Distributed User Interfaces for Projector Phones
Drag & Share: A Shared Workspace for Distributed Synchronous Collaboration
Distributed Interactive Surfaces: A Step Towards the Distribution of Tangible and Virtual Objects
Multi-touch Collaborative DUI to Create Mobile Services
Co-Interactive Table: A New Facility Based on Distributed User Interfaces to Improve Collaborative Meetings
Exploring Distributed User Interfaces in Ambient Intelligent Environments.
Visually Augmented Interfaces for Co-located Mobile Collaboration
Supporting Distributed Decision Making Using Secure Distributed User Interfaces