GVU Technical Report Number:
GIT-GVU-97-10
Title:
CyberDesk: A Framework for Providing Self-Integrating Ubiquitous Software
Services
Authors:
Anind K. Dey
Gregory D. Abowd
Mike Pinkerton
Andrew Wood
Abstract:
Current software suites suffer from problems due to poor
integration of their individual tools. They require the designer to
think of all possible integrating behaviours and leave little flexibility
to the user. In this paper, we discuss CyberDesk, a component software
framework that automatically integrates desktop and network services,
requiring no integrating decisions to be made by the tool designers and
giving total control to the user. We describe CyberDesk's architecture
in detail and show how CyberDesk components can be built. We give examples
of extensions to CyberDesk such as chaining, combining, and using higher
level context to obtain powerful integrating behaviours.
Keywords:
Adaptive interfaces, automated integration, dynamic integration, software
components, context-aware computing, future computing environments,
ubiquitous services
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