Felipe Gil-Castiñeira
ABSTRACT
New mobile devices are equipped with a plethora of sensors and peripheral devices such as accelerometers and gyroscopes, which are not available as input mechanisms in traditional desktop and tabletop computing environments. However, the utilization of these novel input devices would provide opportunities for new and more natural user experiences beyond the traditional keyboard-mouse-touch paradigm. For example, it should be possible to use the accelerometer in a mobile phone as the input device for a game running on a PC. In this demonstration, we showcase a virtual device framework which enables the sharing of embedded peripherals between heterogeneous computing devices over any IP-based network in an application agnostic manner. We further show examples of use cases which utilize this framework to provide a richer and more natural user experience for existing desktop applications.
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Digital Library
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Index Terms
- Remote virtual devices: middleware for dynamic device composition
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