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iStuff: a physical user interface toolkit for ubiquitous computing environments

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Rafael Ballagas,

Meredith Ringel,

Jan BorchersAuthors Info & Claims

CHI '03: Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems

Pages 537 - 544

https://doi.org/10.1145/642611.642705

Published: 05 April 2003 Publication History

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The iStuff toolkit of physical devices, and the flexible software infrastructure to support it, were designed to simplify the exploration of novel interaction techniques in the post-desktop era of multiple users, devices, systems and applications collaborating in an interactive environment. The toolkit leverages an existing interactive workspace in-frastructure, making it lightweight and platform independent. The supporting software framework includes a dynamically configurable intermediary to simplify the mapping of devices to applications. We describe the iStuff architecture and provide several examples of iStuff, organized into a design space of ubiquitous computing interaction components. The main contribution is a physical toolkit for distributed, heterogeneous environments with run-time retargetable device data flow. We conclude with some insights and experiences derived from using this toolkit and framework to prototype experimental interaction techniques for ubiquitous computing environments.

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DOI:10.1145/642611

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