A Proposal to Validate the User's Goal in Distributed User Interfaces

A comparison analysis of environmental factors affecting software reliability

“…For example, lots of companies shorten their software release cycle from traditional 18-months to a period, like 3 months, to respond to a fast-changing and competitive market (Khomh, 2012). In addition, users are able to perform different tasks through a wide variety of computational device like mobile phones, tablet PCs, laptops, desktops, notebooks, and so on (Gallud, 2012), as the high technology developed. In order to provide ubiquitous access to information and to accomplish more desktop-related tasks, it brings new challenges such as application maintenance, device consistency, and dynamic version settings to the developer (Eisentein, 2001).…”

Mobile Distributed User Interfaces

“…Some implementations consider the use of two or more devices simultaneously [7,13]. By authors Penaver, Melchior and Gallud in several papers from 2011 to 2013 [14][15][16][17] we know that any single user interface can be cataloged as a distributed user interface if it has some characteristics like portability, fragmentation (also known as decomposition), simultaneity, and continuity. Being the first two characteristics the most important to satisfied the transformation of a user interface to a distributed one [14,17,18].…”

“…From 2011 to 2013 several authors make some definitions [14][15][16][17][18] to formulate the DUI abstract model that allows developers to arrive at an implementation model. In this model, the elements of interaction (input, output and control), functionality, target, user interface, portability, decomposability, sub-user interfaces, platform, distributed user interfaces, simultaneity, requirements function and concurrency restriction stand out.…”

“…In general, it is possible to distinguish two methods for DUI design. One of these is presented by [12] and the other is presented by [14][15][16][17]. In [12] the way to distribute the GUI elements between users, platforms and environments is emphasized.…”