uDesign: End-User Design Applied to Monitoring and Control Applications for Smart Spaces

Abstract

Abstract

iCompose: context-aware physical user interface for application composition

“…For instance, Chantzara et al [13] and Takemoto et al [63] studied service provisioning issues, Bertolino et al [5] and Butford et al [10] tackled service validation and trust issues, Kalasapur et al [26] targeted optimization of service communication paths, Nakazawa et al [39] focused on automatic generation of application code, Rigole et al [51,52] addressed distributed user interface deployment, Mungellini et al [36] applied composition to fast-prototype multimodal applications, Sousa et al, Ben Mokhtar et al, Cang et al and Lindenberg et al [4,12,30,61] introduced specification languages for querying and describing application composition, and finally, Sousa et al [62] and Paluska et al [43] introduced design styles for developing adaptive applications through composition. A number of authors surveyed application composition approaches in ubiquitous computing.…”

Social computing networks

“…None of these works, however, aim to provide the ability to dynamically compose and adapt a software system. Similar to our activity oriented language, uDesign [7] targets smart patient care spaces. However, its focus has not been on incorporating social networks.…”

Steps toward activity-oriented computing

“…Steps toward Activity-Oriented Computing O work has been reported in more detail in [15]. The approach must: a) be simple enough for end-users to manipulate with little initial training; b) have and effective cost/benefit ratio; and, c) be precise enough to be used to automatically assemble a running system.…”

“…In [15] we describe in more detail the implementation of uDesign on our current Aura task infrastructure. Future work will involve verifying that this design is simple enough to be used by a broad range of users.…”