Technological platforms, convergence and adaptation of interactive contents

Our lives are becoming a multi-device experience where people are surrounded by different types of devices (e.g. cell phones, PDAs, desktop computers, digital television sets, intelligent watches, and so on) through which they can connect to networks in different ways. Most of them are mobile personal devices carried by users moving freely about different environments populated by various other devices. Such environments raise many issues for designers and developers, such as the need to obtain interactive contents able to adapt to the interaction resources of the available devices. The main objective of this book chapter is to allow readers to gain knowledge in methods and tools for the design of multi-device interactive services that can support designers and developers in addressing a number of the issues raised by multi-device environments.