Human-Computer Interaction

1.Introduction.- Overall View.- Motivations.- Objectives.- Technical and Architectural Aspects.- Structure of the Book.- 2.State of the Art in Migration.- Introduction to Migration Frameworks.- Support for Application Migration.- Middleware Support for Migration.- Network Mobility Support for Migration.- Context Support for Migration.- Migratory Services for Games.- Advances over the State of the Art.- Advances in Migratory User Interfaces.- Advances in the Migration of the Application Logic.- Summary of Main Advances over the State of the Art.- 3.Migration Opportunities.- Setting the Scene.- Multiscreen Ambition.- Migration Platform Value Chain.- 4.The OPEN Migration Platform Architecture.- The Concept of Migration.- The Advantages of the OPEN Approach.- Architectural Overview of the OPEN Platform.- Making Applications OPEN-Aware.- The OPEN Adaptors.- Client and Server Side Applications.- Partial Migration.- Platform Communication: The OPEN Dispatchers.- Communication Models.- OPEN Platform Architecure.- OPEN Interfaces.- Interface Design Philosophy.- Ensuring Data Consistency.- Conclusions.- 5.User Interface Migration based on the Use of Logical Descriptions.- Introduction.- Architecure.- OPEN Platform Integrated Orchestration.- Stand-alone Web Migration Orchestration.- An Application Example of Total Web Migration.- An Application Example of Partial Web Migration.- Usability Evaluation.- Technical Migration Evaluation.- Considerations and Open Issues.- 6.Service Migration Network Support.- Network and Deployment Scenarios.- Network Domain and Entities.- Deployment Scenarios.- Overview of the Network Support.- Migration Orchestration and Orchestation Procedure.- Context Management.- Internal Structure, Architecure and Interaction.- Internal Structure and Architecture.- Interaction with the Context Management Framework.- Adapting the Context Management Framework.- Trigger Detection and Management.- Manual Migration Triggering.- Automatic Migration Triggering.- Score-based Trigger Decision Approach.- Model-based Trigger Decision Approach.- Mobility Support.- Requirements for Mobility Support Module.- Terminal Mobility.- The Mobile Internet Protocol.- The Mobile Stream Control Transmission Protocol.- SIP.- Comparison of Terminal Mobility Approaches.- Session Mobility.- Mobile IP for Session Mobility.- Architecture of Mobility Support Module.- 7.Dynamic Reconfiguration of Application Logic during Application Migration.- Introduction.- The Application Logic Reconfiguration Module.- ALR Application Components.- Application Logic Specification and Reconfiguration.- Related Work.- Conclusions and Future Work.- 8.Design and Development of a Migratory Application based on OPEN Migration Service Platform.- Introduction.- Aspects of Migratory Application.- Guidelines for Making an Application OPEN-Compliant.- Application Logic.- User Interface.- Network.- Context.- Policy.- Perception and Awareness of the Migration Process.- An Example of a Migratory Application: The Social Game.- Scenario.- Description.- Aspects.- Architecture.- Examples of Migration.- Conclusions.- 9.Next-Generation Migratory Emergency Management Application.- Introduction.- Motivating Example.- Requirements.- Agile User Interfaces.- Agile User Interfaces Implemented.- Agile User Interfaces Evaluated.- Related Work.- Conclusions and Future Work.- 10. Integration of User Interface and Application Logic Reconfiguration: An Example in the Game Domain.- Introduction.- Description of the PacMan Game.- Migration and the Main Architecture of the PacMan Game.- Application Logic Reconfiguration.- User Interface Migration.- State Persistence.- Integration of the User Interface Migration and Application Logic Reconfiguration.- Advantages of the OPEN Migration Platform.- Conclusions.- 11.The Usability Evaluation and the Programmability Assessment of Migration.- What does Testing a Migratory Middleware Platform Mean?.- Usability.- The ISO Definition of Usability.- Programmability Assessment.- Programming Validation.- Conclusion about Testing Activity.