A Re-configurable Interaction Model in Distributed IoT Environment

Internet of Things (IoT) is a trending paradigm that more and more devices are connected nowadays. However, although the massive IoT devices have been the infrastructure everywhere, the utilization of these devices is still challenging, especially when interacting with multiple devices in a dynamic distributed IoT environment. In this paper, a novel interaction model named UnIEM is proposed to allow Distributed User Interfaces to be dynamically configured on several IoT devices based on user preferences. The proposed model is implemented on the operating system named HarmonyOS to utilize the native distributed processing support. A video migration demo application is developed to validate the proposed model. The eventual work can assist the developers to develop IoT applications with various different devices and interaction strategies with dynamic re-configurations in run-time.