2009.02.24 | Dorthe Haagen Nielsen

Abstract

As we engage in an increasing number of activities involving computational devices distributedin our environment, organizing and managing these activities becomes harder. The dissertation presents an approach to activity-based computing focusing on the distributed interaction between software systems and the individuals using them.
The work involves three topics: (i) user-interfaces and interaction techniques for working in, and with, activities, (ii) infrastructures responsible for the runtimedistribution of data and events, and (iii) mechanisms to enable application developers to expose their applications to activity-based integration.