Adaptation of Single-user Multi-touch Components to Support Synchronous Mobile Collaboration

Autor(es)

Pichiliani, Mauro C. ; Hirata, Celso Massaki ; ICST

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: PROCEEDINGS OF THE 2012 8TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON COLLABORATIVE COMPUTING: NETWORKING, APPLICATIONS AND WORKSHARING (COLLABORATECOM 2012); v. N/A, p. 10-pg., 2012-01-01.

Resumo

Mobile applications, which include calendars, browsers, and text editors, are part of our lives nowadays. Most of the mobile applications are single user, i.e. they do not allow the cooperative work of group of users simultaneously. Adaptation is a technique to transform single user application into cooperative one. A form of adaptation is based on the reuse of the manufacturers' SDKs (Software Development Kits). In general, adaptation is made manually; nonetheless, we conjecture that some automation is possible. This paper investigates this possibility for mobile applications by assuming that the target SDK's components comply with certain design guidelines. We present a reference model to develop collaborative mobile groupware applications by the modification of multi-touch user interface components provided by the manufacturers' SDKs. We also present a process to convert and adapt those components. We discuss two examples that illustrate our proposal. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 12/04260-4 - Uma abordagem baseada em índices invertidos para computação, consulta e atualização de cubos de dados (I-Cubing) e uma técnica para transformar aplicações móveis com interface multi-toque para atender requisitos de colaboração (CoMultiTouch)
• Beneficiário: Celso Massaki Hirata
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Regular