Shared Phidgets: A Toolkit for Rapidly Prototyping Distributed Physical User Interfaces
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2006-04-11
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Many physical user interfaces are best viewed as an interacting
collection of remotely-located distributed hardware and software components.
The problem is that current physical user interface toolkits do not normally
offer distributed systems capabilities, leaving developers with extra burdens
such as device discovery and management, lowlevel hardware access, and
networking. Our solution is Shared Phidgets, a toolkit for rapidly prototyping
distributed physical interfaces. This toolkit offers programmers several ways
to easily access remotely located hardware components, including a powerful
distributed model-viewcontroller object model. Network communication and
lowlevel access to the device hardware are transparently handled, regardless
of device location. The programmer can also create new abstract devices by
transforming and aggregating low level hardware device capabilities.
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Computer Science