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Current computing environments include multiple I/O devices in a highly heterogeneous, distributed, dynamic, multi-user environment. Most UIMS and toolkits fail to address such environments. The O/live UIMS that we built, and have been using for several years, decouples applications from their interfaces by using distributed synthetic file system interfaces to export user interface elements. O/live supports transparent distribution, replication, and migration of user interface elements among highly heterogeneous devices. It is highly programmable without any application support. This paper briefly describes the ideas underlying O/live.
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Ballesteros, F.J., Guardiola, G., Soriano-Salvador, E. (2013). Pervasive User Interface Elements as Synthetic Networked Files. In: Urzaiz, G., Ochoa, S.F., Bravo, J., Chen, L.L., Oliveira, J. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. Context-Awareness and Context-Driven Interaction. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 8276. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03176-7_11
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