The Virtual Splitter: An Authoring Tool For Web Applications In Multiscreen Environment

This paper presents a new approach that exploits existing web applications and re-purposes them towards the multiscreen environment. For this purpose, a virtual splitting system is proposed. It consists of a generalized mapping technique that, contrary to previous works, automatically analyzes the application content based on a semantic or a visual criteria and prepares it for the splitting process. The system delivers two instrumented applications ready for distribution across devices. During runtime, a mirroring phase is proposed to maintain the functionality of the distributed application and to support a dynamic splittting process. Developed as a Chrome extension, our approach is validated on a youtube page and on a video application from Mozilla.