Paper Info
Title
A toolkit for peer-to-peer distributed user interfaces: concepts, implementation, and applications
Abstract
In this paper we present a software toolkit for deploying peer-to-peer distributed graphical user interfaces across four dimensions: multiple displays, multiple platforms, multiple operating systems, and multiple users, either independently or concurrently. This toolkit is based on the concept of multi-purpose proxy connected to one or many rendering engines in order to render a graphical user interface in part or whole for any user, any operating system (Linux, Mac OS X and Windows XP or higher), any computing platform (ranging from a pocket PC to a wall screen), and/or any display (ranging from private to public displays). This toolkit is a genuine peer-to-peer solution in that no computing platform is used for a server or for a client: any user interface can be distributed across users, systems, and platforms independently of their location, system constraints, and platform constraints. After defining the toolkit concepts, its implementation is described, motivated, and exemplified on two non-form based user interfaces: a distributed office automation and a distributed interactive game.
Year
DOI
Venue
2009
10.1145/1570433.1570449
EICS
Keywords
Field
DocType
multiple platform,software toolkit,multiple user,multiple operating system,user interface,computing platform,multiple display,toolkit concept,graphical user interface,platform constraint,graphic user interface,operating system,ubiquitous computing,multiplication operator
Peer-to-peer,Computer science,User Interface Toolkit,Graphical user interface,Human–computer interaction,Software,OS X,Ubiquitous computing,User interface,Office automation,Operating system
Conference
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
47
2.23
22
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jérémie Melchior1774.74
Donatien Grolaux21068.19
Jean Vanderdonckt32917276.94
Peter Van Roy461767.19