Some of the details of a project I worked on at PARC have been published in a paper entitled "The Orbital Browser."
The abstract:
Most ubiquitous computing environments are designed
as collections of highly distributed and heterogeneous
services. In this paper we describe a user interface, the
Orbital Browser, which reduces the complexity of
ubicomp service composition to two simple end-user
operations: rotation and selection. We discuss the
design requirements imposed by service composition
and how we addressed them with our system.
The browser has an organic look and feel, like you're connecting unicellular organisms to form more complex beasties.
Update: there is also a demo video
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