On the Challenges of Building
a Web-based Ubiquitous Application Platform
Heiko Desruelle1, John Lyle2, Simon Isenberg3, and Frank Gielen1
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Ghent University – IBBT
Department of Information Technology (INTEC)
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University of Oxford
Department of Computer Science
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BMW Group Research and Technology
Mobile is the Future...
happening right now
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+1 billion mobile phones sold / year
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+100 million mobile web users in the US (JPMorgan)
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Mobile access will surpass PCs by 2013 (Gartner)
Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Breedbandcommunicatienetwerken (IBCN)
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Webinos Platform
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Virtualized application platform
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Cross-domain (PC, mobile, TV, automotive)
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“Single app for every device”
Multi-device applications
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Both parallel as well as serial usage
Leveraging the Web
Related Work
Single device apps
Multi-device apps
NaCl
Munin
Gibraltar
Personal Zone
= The set of all devices, owned by a particular user
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Creating one virtual device
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Remote-able APIs
Laptop
Tablet
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TV
Smartphone
Car
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Proof of Concept
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Implementation for each of the core domains
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PC (Windows, OSX, Linux)
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Mobile (Android, early iOS)
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Home entertainment (embedded Linux)
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Automotive (Pandaboard)
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M2M (Arduino)
NodeJS platform extension
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Vehicle Dashboard
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http://webinos.org/blog/category/demos/
Status and Future Work
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Living labs validation
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Evaluate stakeholders’ expectations
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Validate users’ experience
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Various user and developer personas
Next level of automated adaptation
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UI adaptation and distribution
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Thank you
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