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This paper addresses a new GUI architecture, called the shared interaction objects architecture, in which a GUI application consists of a storage of interaction objects implemented with a structured distributed shared memory, and several tasks sharing the storage. The main benefit of this architecture is that it offers an integrated framework of the implementation of several sophisticated interaction techniques such as multi-user interfaces, scripting, distributed GUI applications, gestures, and assistive technologies. Moreover, this paper reports that this architecture can be implemented with moderate performance by employing several implementation techniques such as R-trees, fully replicated coherence algorithm, multi-threading, and real-time scheduling.
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Koshizuka, N., Sakamura, K. (1995). The shared interaction objects architecture: Integration of advanced GUI techniques in distributed environments. In: Blumenthal, B., Gornostaev, J., Unger, C. (eds) Human-Computer Interaction. EWHCI 1995. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1015. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-60614-9_11
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