Software architectural support for tangible user interfaces in distributed, heterogeneous computing environments

This research focuses on tools that support the development of tangible interaction-based applications for distributed computing environments. Applications built with these tools are capable of utilizing heterogeneous resources for tangible interaction and can be reconfigured for different contexts with minimal code changes. Current trends in computing, especially in areas such as computational science, scientific visualization and computer supported collaborative work, foreshadow increasing complexity, distribution and remoteness of computation and data. These trends imply that tangible interface developers must address concerns of both tangible interaction design and networked distributed computing. In this dissertation, we present a software architecture that supports separation of these concerns. Additionally, a tangibles-based software development toolkit based on this architecture is presented that enables the logic of elements within a tangible user interface to be mapped to configurations that vary in the number, type and location of resources within a given tangibles-based system.

Name thesis:degree_name

Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Computer Sciences

Grantor

Computer Science

Year dc:date.available

2012

Author dc:creator

• Toole, Cornelius

• software abstraction
• interoperability
• publish-subscribe
• software toolkit
• software architecture styles
• software architecture

Statement dc:rights

• unrestricted
• Release the entire work immediately for access worldwide.

Identifier

etd-06052012-162857
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/932

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:repository.lsu.edu:gradschool_dissertations-1931