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Palmtop PCs with infrared transceivers provide a user-friendly, intelligent, and extensible alternative to the remote controls traditionally used to control home appliances. We describe the design and implementation of a palmtop programmable appliance control system. The system is designed around RDL, a domain specific language, allowing the realisation of virtual remote control units and sophisticated interaction sequences. The multitude and diversity of control applica-tions programmed in RDL point towards a new appliance control paradigm based on a client-server architecture and intelligent user interfaces.

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  1. Department of Information and Communication Systems, University of the Aegean, GR-83200, Karlovasi, Greece

    Diomidis Spinellis

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Spinellis, D. Palmtop programmable appliance controls. Personal Technologies 2, 11–17 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01581842

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