UWA
The Ubiquitous Web Applications Activity
was launched on 30 March 2007 with the vision of enabling value-added
services and business models for ubiquitous networked devices, based
upon W3C's strengths in declarative representations. The Activity
includes the Geolocation Working
Group and the Ubiquitous Web Applications
Working Group.
- Developing standards for a new breed of web authoring solutions
that will make it much easier to assure security, accessibility and
end-user experience whilst reducing the development costs for
delivery to desktop, mobile and other channels. This is based upon
a multi-layered approach to user interfaces that separates out the
concerns of application developers from the details of how the user
interface is realized on specific devices.
- Enabling applications using multiple devices that reach out
into the physical world, in areas such as safety, security,
healthcare, environmental monitoring and control, home entertainment,
distributed work groups and just in time maintenance.
- Rich descriptions of devices, and the means to expose this
to Web applications and enable them to dynamically adapt to
changes in user preferences, device capabilities and environmental
conditions including device location.
- Web-based framework for device coordination that exposes
local and remote resources via a device abstraction layer, enabling
applications to run over a heterogenous mix of networking
technologies and device generations.
Highlights Since the Previous Advisory Committee Meeting
- Launch of the Geolocation
Working Group on enabling location-aware Web applications
through client-side access to the device's location via a secure
and privacy sensitive interface. Location is an aspect of the
Delivery Context, and part of the Delivery Context Ontology.
- UWA WG Face to Face meeting in Pisa, Italy, hosted by the HIIS Laboratory of the
Istituto di Scienze e Tecnologie dell'Informazione
- Preparation of implementation reports for Delivery Context
Client Interfaces (DCCI) and transition to Proposed
Recommendation.
- Spinning off a study on model-based design for user
interfaces. The Model-based UI XG will evaluate research on
model based design and draw up suggestions for further work on
authoring standards for ubiquitous web applications.
- Initiation of work on personalization as part of the
Delivery Context and aimed at making it easier to create
accessible web applications for delivery to a wide range
of devices
Upcoming Activity Highlights
- First Public Working Draft for the Geolocation Interface
(an editor's
working draft is already available).
- Transition of DCCI to Proposed Recommendation
- Working Group Note on use cases and requirements
for personalization
- Working Group Note on terminology, use cases and
requirements for device coordination
- Updates to DIAL (Device Independent Authoring Language)
- Updated Delivery Context Ontology with a focus on
modularisation and better modeling of units
- Expanded set of XPath Access Functions based upon
the Delivery Context Ontology
- A W3C Workshop on secure access to device capabilities
Summary of Activity Structure
This Activity Statement was prepared for the
October 2008 W3C Advisory
Committee Meeting (Members only) per section 5
of the W3C Process Document.
Generated
from group data.
Dave Raggett, Ubiquitous Web
Applications Activity Lead
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