Sebastian Feuerstack @ Universidade Federal de São Carlos

Smart Environments Peoples’ homes are currently flooded with a growing number of intelligent devices providing more and more “useful” features. New smart home devices are introduced as well as additional house control and telecommunication systems, each loaded with numerous complex functions making the handling increasingly difficult for end-users and developers. At the same time the number of available net-centric services grows continuously, providing personalized and ubiquitous access to i... Read more...

Multimodal Modelling Current Human-Computer Interaction by using the classical desktop-metaphor implemented by a screen, mouse, and keyboard setup requires the complete attention of the user’s eyes as well as his hands. Whereas this type of interaction has been proven to be efficient as it’s the main way of interacting with a computer, in a lot of situations this way is disadvantageous - especially in those situations where you need your hands or eyes for other things, like for instance when driving ... Read more...

Adaptive Layouting Today information systems can be accessed at any time, any place and in any situation. The majority of people on the streets own a smart phone enabling them a mobile access to the internet. In our environments screens have been continuously growing in the last years from 12 inch up to 24 inch computer screens at a work desk, huge projections or multi-screen displays in control centres or up to 60 inch ultrathin LCD displays supporting a high-resolution television at home. Further on, more an... Read more...

Model-based Development Developing an interactive application that should be run on several devices and even should support access via several modalities can be a tedious and cumbersome task. The heterogeneous landscape of devices available, equipped with different operating systems, requiring applications to be implemented with different computer languages, different user interface toolkits, need to follow different interaction patterns and style guides, usually requires implementing the same software more than on... Read more...