Framing the Next-Generation ‘Desktop’ using Proximity and Human Perception

• Personal computing, and therefore Human-Computer Interaction (HCI), is becoming a seamlessly integrated part of everyday activity down to the point where "computing" is inseparable from "activity". A modelling problem occurs in these emerging mobile and ubiquitous computing situations because it is hard to determine the spatial and operational limits of an ongoing activity, for the human performing the activity, for the computer system monitoring and/or supporting it, as well as for the modeller observing it. Also, it is an open issue how to model the causal relations between physical (real world) and virtual (digital world) phenomena that these "intelligent environments" can be programmed to maintain, whether defined by software engineers or the end-users themselves. We propose a modeling framework that addresses the above mentioned issues and present our initial attempts to create a User Interface Description Language (UIDL) based on the framework.

Subject headings

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Människa-datorinteraktion (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Human Computer Interaction (hsv//eng)

NATURVETENSKAP  -- Data- och informationsvetenskap -- Datavetenskap (hsv//swe)

NATURAL SCIENCES  -- Computer and Information Sciences -- Computer Sciences (hsv//eng)

Keyword

Human-computer interaction

user interface description language

Computer Science

datalogi

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