Toolkit for the development of Interactive Collaborative Environments: architecture and proof of concept

Although during the last years the Interactive Collaborative Environments (ICEs) are offering new possibilities and opportunities to integrate new physical interactions modalities, they also bring new challenges for designers and developers. For that reason, the development of tools that facilitate the creation of applications for ICEs is needed. In this work the architecture of a tool of this kind is proposed together with a proof of concept. The base of this proposal is TUIML, an abstraction model for tangible interfaces that has been re-interpreted by the authors to support ubiquitous interfaces such as ICEs.