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Huddle: automatically generating interfaces for systems of multiple connected appliances

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Jeffrey Nichols,

Brandon Rothrock,

Duen Horng Chau,

Brad A. MyersAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '06: Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

Pages 279 - 288

https://doi.org/10.1145/1166253.1166298

Published: 15 October 2006 Publication History

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Systems of connected appliances, such as home theaters and presentation rooms, are becoming commonplace in our homes and workplaces. These systems are often difficult to use, in part because users must determine how to split the tasks they wish to perform into sub-tasks for each appliance and then find the particular functions of each appliance to complete their sub-tasks. This paper describes Huddle, a new system that automatically generates task-based interfaces for a system of multiple appliances based on models of the content flow within the multi-appliance system.

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UIST '06: Proceedings of the 19th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

October 2006

354 pages

ISBN:1595933131

DOI:10.1145/1166253

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IDIAP Research Institute, Switzerland
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Microsoft Research, USA

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