Flexible interface migration

Abstract

The goal of this work is to provide users immersed in a multi-platform environment with the possibility of interacting with an application while freely moving from one device to another. We describe the solution that we have developed for a service to support platform-aware runtime migration for Web applications. This allows users interacting with an application to change device and continue their interaction from the same point. The service performs the migration of the application taking into account its runtime state and adapting the application interface to the features of the target platforms. The service is optimized for applications developed through a modelbased, multiple-level approach. The intelligence of the adaptive interfaces resides in the migration server, which adapts data collected at runtime from their original format to the format best fitting the features of the target platform. We also indicate how it is possible to extend this result in order to support partial migration and synergistic access, by which a part of the user interface is kept on one device during runtime and the remaining part is moved to another with different characteristics.

Flexible Distribution of Existing Web Interfaces: An Architecture Involving Developers and End-Users

“…Other similar approaches using proxies are Proxywork [16] and WebSplitter [8]. And there are also approaches addressing flexible interface migration [1].…”

Recent Advances in Ambient Intelligence and Context-Aware Computing

“…Migratable interfaces allow some degree of mobility; this is often called partial migration (Bandelloni & Paternò, 2004) and is characterized by moving parts of a graphical user interface (or "display content part") to a new device, e.g. a large computer screen, while keeping control functionality on the original host device.…”

Context-Aware HCI Service Selection

“…The idea of interaction migration has been proposed for decades to meet this demand, in which HCI can be migrated across different platforms and modalities to provide better user experiences. Interaction migration systems like [3,6,7] take advantage of model-based method to separate interaction tasks and generate corresponding interfaces on target platforms. The authors of [5,8], however, use another mechanism based on web service structure to provide migration under pervasive computing environment [2].…”

“…Process level migration is a straight-forward intuition but its bottleneck in transferring large data and reconstructing process on various embedded platforms hampers its widespread use. Task level migration, on the other hand, extracts logic tasks and their relationships from application using model-based method [3] and then migration can be achieved by distributing tasks to multiple devices. However, although such migration techniques are good at modeling logic and temporal relationships among tasks, to construct ontology and categorization of tasks is nontrivial, thus placing obstacles for migration among interaction modalities.…”