Category: UI AR
Abstract: In this paper we introduce the UbicompBrowser, a system that
        applies ubiquitous computing to the World-Wide Web. The
        UbicompBrowser extends the World-Wide Web in two ways into
        our everyday environments. First, it extends the browser
        concept by replacing the standard web user interface with a
        handheld access and control device and surrounding output
        devices. This ubiquitous user interface is determined
        dynamically based on the location of the handheld control. 
        Secondly, the UbicompBrowser system extends the web concept
        of uniform access to resources by applying the same access
        method, uniform resource identifiers, to environment-specific
        resources, for example for access to the TV channels
        available on a TV set, and for access to light switches. In
        summary, the UbicompBrowser improves web accessibility by
        realizing a ubiquitous environment-based user interface, and
        by extending accessibility to environment-specific resources. 
        The approach constitutes a user interface for all flexibly
        adapted to their environment, interfacing both global
        resources in the web and local resources in a given user
        environment.
Bibtype: InProceedings
URL: http://www.teco.edu/~michael/pub/ub/
Month: oct
Author: Michael Beigl
        Albrecht Schmidt
        Markus Lauff
        Hans-Werner Gellersen
Booktitle: Proceedings of the 4th ERCIM Workshop
        on User Interfaces for All (UI4ALL)
Title: The UbicompBrowser
Year: 1998
Date: 2003/08/01 04:59:49
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