1. Heiko Desruelle 1, John Lyle 2, Simon Isenberg 3, and Frank Gielen 1 1 Ghent University – IBBT Department of Information Technology (INTEC) 2 University of Oxford Department of Computer Science 3 BMW Group Research and Technology On the Challenges of Building a Web-based Ubiquitous Application Platform

2. Vakgroep Informatietechnologie – Breedbandcommunicatienetwerken (IBCN) 2 Mobile is the Future...  +1 billion mobile phones sold / year  +100 million mobile web users in the US (JPMorgan)  Mobile access will surpass PCs by 2013 (Gartner) happening right now

4. Webinos Platform  Virtualized application platform  Cross-domain (PC, mobile, TV, automotive)  “Single app for every device”  Multi-device applications  Both parallel as well as serial usage  Leveraging the Web

5. Munin Gibraltar Related Work Single device appsMulti-device apps NaCl

6. 6 Personal Zone = The set of all devices, owned by a particular user  Creating one virtual device  Remote-able APIs Laptop TV Car Tablet Smartphone...

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10. 10 Proof of Concept  Implementation for each of the core domains  PC (Windows, OSX, Linux)  Mobile (Android, early iOS)  Home entertainment (embedded Linux)  Automotive (Pandaboard)  M2M (Arduino)  NodeJS platform extension

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12. 12 http://webinos.org/blog/category/demos/ Vehicle Dashboard

13. 13 Status and Future Work  Living labs validation  Evaluate stakeholders’ expectations  Validate users’ experience  Various user and developer personas  Next level of automated adaptation  UI adaptation and distribution

14. Thank you www.webinos.org @webinosproject heiko.desruelle@intec.ugent.be