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User interfaces when and where they are needed: an infrastructure for recombinant computing

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Mark W. Newman,

W. Keith Edwards,

Jana Z. Sedivy,

Trevor F. SmithAuthors Info & Claims

UIST '02: Proceedings of the 15th annual ACM symposium on User interface software and technology

Pages 171 - 180

https://doi.org/10.1145/571985.572009

Published: 27 October 2002 Publication History

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Users in ubiquitous computing environments need to be able to make serendipitous use of resources that they did not anticipate and of which they have no prior knowledge. The Speakeasy recombinant computing framework is designed to support such ad hoc use of resources on a network. In addition to other facilities, the framework provides an infrastructure through which device and service user interfaces can be made available to users on multiple platforms. The framework enables UIs to be provided for connections involving multiple entities, allows these UIs to be delivered asynchronously, and allows them to be injected by any party participating in a connection.

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User interfaces when and where they are needed: an infrastructure for recombinant computing
1. Human-centered computing
  1. Collaborative and social computing
    1. Collaborative and social computing systems and tools
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  2. Human computer interaction (HCI)
    1. Interactive systems and tools
2. Theory of computation
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    1. Interactive computation

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