Towards A Usable API for Constructing Interactive Multi-Surface Systems
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Research into multi-surface systems goes back for more than thirty years, yet these systems have not been taken up in real-world settings. We believe the reason for the lack of adoption is that constructing multi-surface systems is costly and requires specialist knowledge of tasks related to device discovery, cross-platform interoperability, networking, and spatial tracking. These tasks represent a significant distraction from implementing features that actually matter to end users. While some APIs exist for supporting the setup of multi-surface systems, they are directed at specialist developers. We propose to develop a highly learnable API for constructing multi-surface systems, which is targeted at non-specialists.
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