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Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Proceedings of 36th International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology – ISAT 2015 – Part II pp 49–69Cite as

Key Requirements and New Architecture for Context-Aware Web-Based Device-Independent Multi-device Applications

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Cross-platform mobile and web applications become increasingly popular among users. As users begin to use multiple devices, their behavior patterns start to migrate from single-device to multi-device scenarios, where multiple devices are used sequentially or complementary to interact with a user and gather context information. Application developers should follow these trends and focus on multi-device aspects of their applications but efficient and cost effective application development requires proven frameworks and architectures, which are missing in this field. In this paper we identify key aspects of context-aware multi-device device-independent applications that should be supported by such tools and we propose a new application architecture. The presented architecture and conclusions are based on experimental implementations of a sample context-aware device-independent multi-device application called LifeLog.

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  1. Poznan University of Economics, Poznan, Poland

    Jacek Chmielewski

  2. Fraunhofer FOKUS, Berlin, Germany

    Martin Lasak

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  1. Faculty of Computer Science and Manageme, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocła, Wrocław, Poland

    Adam Grzech

  2. Faculty of Computer Science and Manageme, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocła, Wroclaw, Poland

    Leszek Borzemski

  3. Faculty of Computer Science and Manageme, Wrocław University of Technology, Wrocła, Wrocław, Poland

    Jerzy Świątek

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    Zofia Wilimowska

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Chmielewski, J., Lasak, M. (2016). Key Requirements and New Architecture for Context-Aware Web-Based Device-Independent Multi-device Applications. In: Grzech, A., Borzemski, L., Świątek, J., Wilimowska, Z. (eds) Information Systems Architecture and Technology: Proceedings of 36th International Conference on Information Systems Architecture and Technology – ISAT 2015 – Part II. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 430. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28561-0_5

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