A device-independent representation for services

Author

Román, Manuel ; Beck, James ; Gefflaut, Alain

Author_Institution

IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA

fYear

2000

fDate

2000

Firstpage

73

Lastpage

82

Abstract

Mobile computing introduces many benefits in terms of remote access to data and functions via software services. However, users may wish to interact with many services from many different devices. This raises an important question regarding how to provide services in a way that makes them accessible to a wide range of heterogeneous devices. This paper presents a way of uniquely representing a service in a device-independent way. The proposed representation describes both the functionality of the service and the user interface in a single entity. By representing services in this way, functionality is extended across a greater range of client devices and a greater range of user interface modalities

Keywords

client-server systems; computer software; mobile computing; user interfaces; accessibility; client devices; device-independent representation; heterogeneous devices; mobile computing; remote access; service functionality; software service provision; user interaction; user interface modalities; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer interfaces; Milling machines; Mobile computing; Programming; Rendering (computer graphics); Rivers; Software performance; User interfaces;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Mobile Computing Systems and Applications, 2000 Third IEEE Workshop on.

Conference_Location

Los Alamitos, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-0816-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/MCSA.2000.895383

Filename

895383