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The DireWolf Inside You: End User
Development for Heterogeneous
Web of Things Appliances
István Koren, Ralf Klamma
Advanced Community Information Systems (ACIS)
RWTH Aachen University, Germany
koren@dbis.rwth-aachen.de
16th International Conference on Web Engineering
(ICWE2016)
6-9 June 2016
USI Lugano, Switzerland

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It‘s a Brave New World…
 Are you afraid of losing control over your smart home?
 Why do you push bytes around the globe to turn on the
light?
 What do you think about installing a particular app for
every new task?
 How to let end users securely deal with the huge
number of everyday Internet of Things devices?
 How to economically build individual apps for a
heterogeneous device landscape?
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Web Infrastructure Vision
 Microservices running
in a p2p environment
 Web protocols
– HTTP
– XMPP
– MQTT
 Componentized,
dynamic Web frontends
 End User Development

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ICWE
2013:
DireWolf
JWE 2014:
DireWolf
1.1
ICWE 2014:
DireWolf 2.0
• WebRTC
• Cross-device
Mario
ICWE 2015:
Collaboration
• Yjs
• Collaborative
Video Drawing
ICWE
2016:
DireWolf
3.0.0
The DireWolf Framework
@ ICWE

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DireWolf for the Web of Things
 Devices broadcast their own UI and access logic
– QR codes, NFC or Bluetooth Low Energy
 Device access over Web Bluetooth, MQTT, …
 Session mobility for sharing UI across devices

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DireWolf 3.0.0
System Overview

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Conclusion
 Web frontends for heterogeneous everyday devices
– End User Development: autonomous composition of IoT
applications with Web Components
– local data flows
 Interdisciplinary challenges
– HCI related: multiple devices, different input modalities
– economical: companies feel the urge to provide UIs to a
wide variety of end user devices

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Acknowledgments
This project has received funding from the European
Union’s Seventh Framework Programme for research,
technological development and demonstration under grant
agreement no 318209.

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 Thank you for your attention!
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