Third IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA'00)
A device-independent representation for services
Monterey, California
December 07-December 08
ISBN: 0-7695-0816-2
M. Roman, IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
J. Beck, IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
A. Gefflaut, IBM Thomas J. Watson Res. Center, Yorktown Heights, NY, USA
Mobile computing introduces many benefits in terms of remote access to data and functions via software services. However, users may wish to interact with many services from many different devices. This raises an important question regarding how to provide services in a way that makes them accessible to a wide range of heterogeneous devices. This paper presents a way of uniquely representing a service in a device-independent way. The proposed representation describes both the functionality of the service and the user interface in a single entity. By representing services in this way, functionality is extended across a greater range of client devices and a greater range of user interface modalities.
Index Terms:
mobile computing; computer software; user interfaces; client-server systems; device-independent representation; mobile computing; remote access; software service provision; user interaction; accessibility; heterogeneous devices; service functionality; user interface modalities; client devices
Citation:
M. Roman, J. Beck, A. Gefflaut, "A device-independent representation for services," wmcsa, pp.73, Third IEEE Workshop on Mobile Computing Systems and Applications (WMCSA'00), 2000