Proceedings of 5th Workshop on Distributed User Interfaces: Distributing Interaction (DUI'2016)

The 5th Workshop on Distributed User Interfaces was focused on distributing interactions. Current technology and ICT models generate configurations in which the same user interface can be offered through different interactions. These new technological ecosystems appear as a result of the existence of many heterogeneous devices and interaction mechanisms. Consequently, new conditions and possibilities arise, which not only affects the distribution of the user interfaces but also the distribution of the user’s interactions. Thus, we shift the focus from addressing the distribution of user interfaces to the distribution of the user’s interactions, which poses new challenges that need to be explored. In this context, Web engineering appears as a fundamental research field since it helps to develop device-independent Web applications with user interfaces that are capable of being distributed and accessed through different interaction modes. This fact makes Web environments especially interesting within the scope of this workshop. As in the previous workshops in this series, the main goal is to bring together people working on distributed interactions and enable them to share their knowledge in aspects related to new interaction paradigms such as movement-based interaction, speech recognition, gestures, touch and tangible interaction, etc., and the way we can manage them in a distributed setting.