Supporting the construction of real world interfaces

Author

McCrickard, D. Scott ; Wrighton, David ; Bussert, Dillon

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Virginia Polytech. Inst. & State Univ., Blacksburg, VA, USA

fYear

2002

fDate

2002

Firstpage

54

Lastpage

56

Abstract

In recent years, real world objects have been used to reflect information previously shown on the computer screen. While most earlier efforts have required significant developer knowledge and skills to construct and program the displays, our work is investigating methods to enable programmers to use real world objects in much the same way that they would typical user interface widgets. This paper outlines programming interfaces developed on top of the X10 protocol for controlling power flow to electrical devices, including sample programs for each.

Keywords

application program interfaces; building management systems; programming; user interfaces; X10 protocol; electrical devices; power flow control; programming interfaces; real world interface construction; real world objects; Automatic control; Computer displays; Computer science; Libraries; Load flow; Pervasive computing; Programming profession; Protocols; User interfaces; Weather forecasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Human Centric Computing Languages and Environments, 2002. Proceedings. IEEE 2002 Symposia on

Print_ISBN

0-7695-1644-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/HCC.2002.1046345

Filename

1046345