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Ubiquitous service access through adapted user interfaces on multiple devices

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The Ubiquitous Interactor (UBI) addresses the problems of design and development that arise from services that need to be accessed from many different devices. In the UBI, a service can present itself with different user interfaces on different devices. This is done by a separation of the user–service interaction and presentation. The interaction is kept the same for all devices, and different presentation information is provided for different devices. This way, tailored user interfaces for many different devices can be created without multiplying the development and maintenance work. In this paper, we describe the design of the UBI, the system implementation, and two services implemented for the system: a calendar service and a stockbroker service.

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  1. The DTDs are available at http://www.sics.se/~stny/UBI/DTDs/dtd.html

  2. A DTD can be found at http://www.sics.se/~stny/UBI/DTDs/dtd.html.

  3. Available from http://www.rainer-keuchel.de/wince/tcltk-ce.html, last accessed 21 June 2004.

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This work has been funded by the Swedish Agency for Innovation Systems (http://www.vinnova.se/). Thanks goes to the members of the HUMLE Laboratory at the Swedish Institute of Computer Science, in particular, Anna Sandin for her help with the implementation of the HTML interaction engine.

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Nylander, S., Bylund, M. & Waern, A. Ubiquitous service access through adapted user interfaces on multiple devices. Pers Ubiquit Comput 9, 123–133 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00779-004-0317-4

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