The increasing familiarity of users with modern human-machine interaction concepts (e.g. touch gestures) and corresponding devices makes these devices and concepts interesting for industrial applications. However, the combination of well-established stationary devices and newer mobile devices may cause negative effects on human operator's workflows if the applications - industrial process visualizations in our case-are not well-designed to conform to the user's expectations. These expectations especially focus on the ability of simultaneously used devices to allow users to collaborate with each other or to change their devices frequently. This motivates the use of migratory user interfaces (MUI) which are able to change devices without losing relevant information, and thus, without interrupting the workflow. Hence, in this paper, we present excerpts of the established concept of MUIs and analyze it with respect to the demands given by the domain of industrial process visualizations. We are able to show that these demands require certain extensions of current MUI techniques, for example, explicit markup telling relevant and non-relevant parts of the UI state apart. Our review of the related work reveals that there is no suitable solution which meets the demands. In order to demonstrate the feasibility of migratory UIs in the industrial domain, we present a case study which focuses on extending already existing user interfaces with the required functionality for migration.
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