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Christophe Kolski
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Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis, Valenciennes, France
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Jean Vanderdonckt
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Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
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Advances in electronics, communications, and the fast growth of the Internet have made the use of a wide variety of computing devices an every day occurrence. These computing devices have different interaction styles, input/output techniques, modalities, characteristics, and contexts of use. Furthermore, users expect to access their data and run the same application from any of these devices. Two of the problems we encountered in our own work [2] in building VIs for different platforms were the different layout features and screen sizes associated with each platform and device. Dan Ol sen [13], Peter Johnson [9], and Stephen Brewster, et al. [4] all talk about problems in interaction due to the diversity of interactive platforms, devices, network services and applications. They also talk about the problems associ ated with the small screen size of hand-held devices. In comparison to desk top computers, hand-held devices will always suffer from a lack of screen real estate, so new metaphors of interaction have to be devised for such de vices. It is difficult to develop a multi-platform user interface (VI) without duplicating development effort. Developers now face the daunting task to build UIs that must work across multiple devices. There have been some ap proaches towards solving this problem of multi-platform VI development in cluding XWeb [14]. Building "plastic interfaces" [5,20] is one such method in which the VIs are designed to "withstand variations of context of use while preserving usability".
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Table of contents (33 papers)
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- Joëlle Coutaz, Gaëtan Rey
Pages 13-33
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- David Chamberlain, Angel Diaz, Dan Gisolfi, Ravi Konuru, John Lucassen, Julie Macnaught et al.
Pages 35-50
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- Pedro J. Molina, Santiago Meliá, Oscar Pastor
Pages 63-74
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- Fabrice Depaulis, Sabrina Maiano, Guillaume Texier
Pages 75-82
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- Michael Brasser, Keith Vander Linden
Pages 83-90
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- Hermann Kaindl, Rudolf Jezek
Pages 91-102
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- Costin Pribeanu, Jean Vanderdonckt
Pages 103-110
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- Frank E. Ritter, Dirk Van Rooy, Robert St. Amant
Pages 111-118
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- Claudia Veronica Serey Guerrero, Bernardo Lula Jr.
Pages 119-129
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- Fabio Paternò, Carmen Santoro
Pages 143-154
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- Lawrence Bergman, Guruduth Banavar, Danny Soroker, Jeremy Sussman
Pages 155-166
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- Robin R. Penner, Erik S. Steinmetz
Pages 179-192
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- David Navarre, Philippe Palanque, Rémi Bastide
Pages 205-216
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- James Wu, T. C. Nicholas Graham, Katherine Everitt, Dorothea Blostein, Edward Lank
Pages 217-228
Editors and Affiliations
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Université de Valenciennes et du Hainaut-Cambrésis, Valenciennes, France
Christophe Kolski
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Université catholique de Louvain, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium
Jean Vanderdonckt