TY - GEN
T1 - How to reuse exisiting interactive applications in ubiquitous computing environments?
AU - Nakajima, Tatsuo
N1 - Funding Information:
I thank Diana Hawkes, Curator of the Haslemere Educational Museum, for her hospitality and numerous kindnesses when I visited the Museum in the summer of 1995. I am also glad to have her permission to reproduce manuscript material from the Geikie archives in Haslemere. Further, Mrs Hawkes kindly arranged for me to meet some members of Sir Archibald Geikie's family in Haslemere, and to visit his grave and his former residence and that of one of his daughters. I was privileged to have the opportunity to meet Geikie's grandson, Mr Derick Behrens, who besides giving me information about Geikie's early life that was new to me also read through the typescript and made a number of most helpful suggestions. On the occasion of his visit to Haslemere, Mr Behrens presented some of the geologist's early manuscripts, etc., to the Museum, to add to its already considerable Geikie archive. Research for the paper was funded by a grant from the Australia Research Council.
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Regrettably, however, most of the papers were lost from view for a number of years. I visited the museum in 1987, in the course of collecting material for a book on one of the geological controversies in which Geikie was involved during the course of his career. In 1987, the museum was able to let me examine 15 of Geikie's field notebooks, 1 together with a number of his pencil drawings and water colours, some scrapbooks and photo-albums, some of his published works, and various miscellaneous items of memorabilia. The curator of the museum at that time, Mr Arthur Jewell, retired shortly thereafter, and his position was filled by Mrs Diana Hawkes. She was interested to find the museum's original catalogue, and in 1989 went hunting for it in the building's attics. Many interesting objects were thus discovered, but the most important items so far as the historian of science is concerned were the 28 remaining Geikie field notebooks (located in 1990), more of his water colours and pencil sketches, additional photographs, and 36 letter-books of his outgoing official correspondence for the years 1869-1917 (located in 1989). There were also some surviving rock and mineral specimens from Geikie's private collection (not all collected by him), some incoming correspondence, and offprints of some of his publications. 2 Having an ongoing interest in Geikie's work, I visited the museum again in the summer of 1995, and Diana Hawkes kindly arranged for me to visit his grave in Haslemere and the two private homes in the town associated with the Geikie family. I was also pleased to have the opportunity to meet Mr Derick Behrens, Geikie's only grandchild (son of his youngest daughter Gabrielle Jeanne), and his great-granddaughter, Katherine Cowell. 3 The letter-books have together a total of no less than 19001 pages of correspondence and at a conservative estimate they must contain at least 10000 letters, though at the time of writing they were uncatalogued. They attest to Geikie's extraordinary diligence, zeal, and organizing capacity. Many of the letters have to do 1 Also, ten were preserved at the Edinburgh University Library Archives, while two seem to be ' mobile' betweent he Scottish Branch of the Surveya nd the Geology Department of Edinburgh University. 2 The materials are currently being sorted and catalogued in the 'Geikie Archive Development Project', funded by Shell. 3 'The Geikie family discovers the great man: a chance discoveryr ekindles interest in a pioneer British geologist', The \[Haslemere\]H erald (18 August 1995), 7. Behrens, who was 78 years old in 1995, was a physicist who spent much of his life teaching at Roedean. For a photograph of Behrens as a child in company with his grandfather and dated 1923, see A. Geikie, A Long Life's Work: An Autobiography (London, 1924), pit. facing 408.
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - In ubiquitous computing environments, we will access various devices and appliances from a variety of mobile devices such as mobile phones, PDAs and wearable devices. However, we need to reuse existing interactive applications that adopt traditional GUI toolkits that assume to use mouses and keyboards, and these applications should be operated from the mobile interaction devices. Our approach enables us to use existing GUI-based interactive applications although a variety of interaction devices can be adopted to control the applications. Therefore, the approach allows us to use traditional GUI toolkits to build ubiquitous computing applications that choose appropriate interaction devices dynamically. The paper describes the design and implementation of our middle-ware to realize the approach. We also present some examples to show the effectiveness of our approach.
AB - In ubiquitous computing environments, we will access various devices and appliances from a variety of mobile devices such as mobile phones, PDAs and wearable devices. However, we need to reuse existing interactive applications that adopt traditional GUI toolkits that assume to use mouses and keyboards, and these applications should be operated from the mobile interaction devices. Our approach enables us to use existing GUI-based interactive applications although a variety of interaction devices can be adopted to control the applications. Therefore, the approach allows us to use traditional GUI toolkits to build ubiquitous computing applications that choose appropriate interaction devices dynamically. The paper describes the design and implementation of our middle-ware to realize the approach. We also present some examples to show the effectiveness of our approach.
KW - Interaction
KW - Middleware
KW - Ubiquitous computing
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U2 - 10.1145/1141277.1141546
DO - 10.1145/1141277.1141546
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:33751066766
SN - 1595931082
SN - 9781595931085
T3 - Proceedings of the ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
SP - 1127
EP - 1133
BT - Applied Computing 2006 - The 21st Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing - Proceedings of the 2006 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
PB - Association for Computing Machinery
T2 - 2006 ACM Symposium on Applied Computing
Y2 - 23 April 2006 through 27 April 2006
ER -