Requirements for personalized user environments intelecommunications
Redlich, J.-P.; Balfanz, D.
Services in Distributed and Networked Environments, 1996., Proceedings of Third International Workshop on
Volume , Issue , 3-4 Jun 1996 Page(s):35 - 42
Digital Object Identifier 10.1109/SDNE.1996.502445
Summary:“The network is the computer” is a vision currently
coming true. That “computer”, however is characterized by a
complexity, chaos, and abundance of information which makes it
increasingly difficult for a single (let alone nonexpert) user to
efficiently utilize it. We propose an architecture that allows users to
have their own personal view of the network, and therefore make
“the network their personal computer”. In our architecture
users can describe their personal working environment (PWE) which will
be instantiated on the terminal they are using regardless of the type of
terminal equipment or their specific location within the network. This
demands that resources in the respective vicinity of the user be
considered for inclusion in his/her personal working environment and
that the terminal be flexible enough to present different incantations
of the same resources in a consistent manner to the user. We describe
the components needed for such an architecture and report on a prototype
implementation
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