%0 Conference Paper %B ICMC %D 2014 %T o.io: a Unified Communications Framework for Music, Intermedia and Cloud Interaction %A Freed, Adrian %A DeFilippo, David %A Gottfried , Rama %A MacCallum, John %A Lubow, Jeff %A Razo, Derek %A Rostovtsev, Ilya %A Wessel, David %C Athens, Greece %I IMCA %K Control, %K Cyber-physical %K Device %K Discovery %K Engineering %K Franca, %K Integration, %K Lingua %K Open %K OSC, %K Protocol, %K Software %K Sound %K Systems, %X We present work on the “o.io” system, a suite of tools for hiding vendor-specific and protocol- specific details of con-trollers and actuators and for replacing diffuse documentation and heterogeneous ontologies with harmonized, situational schema carried along in real-time with gesture and actuator control values as Open Sound Control (OSC) bundles. We introduce useful general design patterns and object-oriented tools that support them. We conclude with details of support of two particular devices that illustrate the potential of “o.io”, the QuNeo and Bluetooth LE heart rate monitors.