Lecture Notes in Informatics Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V.

Lecture Notes in Informatics


INFORMATIK 2007 Informatik trifft Logistik Band 1 Beiträge der 37. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft für Informatik e.V. (GI) 24. - 27. September 2007 in Bremen P-109, 459-464 (2007).

Gesellschaft für Informatik, Bonn
2007


Editors

Rainer Koschke (ed.), Otthein Herzog (ed.), Karl-Heinz Rödiger (ed.), Marc Ronthaler (ed.)


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Contents

Supporting cross-application contexts with dynamic user interface fusion

H. Mügge and P. Bihler

Abstract


Currently, user interfaces are defined by single applications but workflows may span multiple ones. In the result, users have to work with separated programs in parallel and deal with separated interfaces to fulfill their tasks. In desktop computing with extensive screens, working with several opened windows might not be eligible but bearable. For mobile devices with very restricted interaction capabilities (e. g. scarce screen estate), the limitations of traditional UIs become a barrier. Therefore we argue that not applications but workflows and tasks should be the determinant for the user interface. This paper introduces in the research question about how to identify the user's current task and focuses on how to reorganize user interfaces across multiple concurrently used applications.


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