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On the Challenges of Building a Web-based Ubiquitous Application Platform. Heiko Desruelle 1 , John Lyle 2 , Simon Isenberg 3 , and Frank Gielen 1 1 Ghent University – IBBT Department of Information Technology (INTEC) 2 University of Oxford Department of Computer Science
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On the Challenges of Building a Web-based Ubiquitous Application Platform HeikoDesruelle1, John Lyle2, Simon Isenberg3, and Frank Gielen1 1 Ghent University – IBBT Department of Information Technology (INTEC) 2 University of Oxford Department of Computer Science 3 BMW Group Research and Technology
+1 billion mobile phones sold / year • +100 million mobile web users in the US (JPMorgan) • Mobile access will surpass PCs by 2013 (Gartner) Mobile is the Future... happening right now Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Breedbandcommunicatienetwerken (IBCN)
Virtualized application platform • Cross-domain (PC, mobile, TV, automotive) • “Single app for every device” • Multi-device applications • Both parallel as well as serial usage • Leveraging the Web Webinos Platform
Related Work Single device apps Multi-device apps NaCl Munin Gibraltar
= The set of all devices, owned by a particular user • Creating one virtual device • Remote-able APIs Personal Zone Laptop Smartphone Tablet ... Car TV
Implementation for each of the core domains • PC (Windows, OSX, Linux) • Mobile (Android, early iOS) • Home entertainment (embedded Linux) • Automotive (Pandaboard) • M2M (Arduino) • NodeJS platform extension Proof of Concept
Vehicle Dashboard http://webinos.org/blog/category/demos/
Living labs validation • Evaluate stakeholders’ expectations • Validate users’ experience • Various user and developer personas • Next level of automated adaptation • UI adaptation and distribution Status and Future Work
www.webinos.org @webinosproject heiko.desruelle@intec.ugent.be Thank you