heiko desruelle 1 , john lyle 2 , simon isenberg 3 , and frank gielen 1

Heiko Desruelle1, John Lyle2, Simon Isenberg3, and Frank Gielen1

1 Ghent University – IBBTDepartment of Information Technology (INTEC)

2 University of OxfordDepartment of Computer Science

3 BMW Group Research and Technology

On the Challenges of Building a Web-based Ubiquitous Application Platform

Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Breedbandcommunicatienetwerken (IBCN)2

Mobile is the Future... +1 billion mobile phones sold / year +100 million mobile web users in the US (JPMorgan)

Mobile access will surpass PCs by 2013 (Gartner)

happening right now

Webinos Platform Virtualized application platform

Cross-domain (PC, mobile, TV, automotive) “Single app for every device”

Multi-device applications Both parallel as well as serial usage

Leveraging the Web

Munin

Gibraltar

Related WorkSingle device apps Multi-device apps

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Personal Zone= The set of all devices, owned by a particular user Creating one virtual device Remote-able APIs

Laptop

TV CarTablet

Smartphone...

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Proof of Concept Implementation for each of the core domains

PC (Windows, OSX, Linux) Mobile (Android, early iOS) Home entertainment (embedded Linux) Automotive (Pandaboard) M2M (Arduino)

NodeJS platform extension

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http://webinos.org/blog/category/demos/

Vehicle Dashboard

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Status and Future Work Living labs validation

Evaluate stakeholders’ expectations Validate users’ experience Various user and developer personas

Next level of automated adaptation UI adaptation and distribution

Thank you

www.webinos.org@webinosproject

heiko.desruelle@intec.ugent.be