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A Storyboard-based Mobile Application Authoring Method for End Users

Authors:
Jun-Sung Kim
Byung-Seok Kang
In-Young Ko

Keywords: Mobile Application Authoring; Application Storyboard; End-user Software Engineering; Visual Programming

Abstract:
Mobile computing focuses on supporting everyday activities of users by providing services that utilize mobile computing resources. More diverse types of users and computing resources have been engaged in mobile computing environments. Considering these characteristics, it is essential to support making end-users actively participating in mobile computing environments based on high-level goals of the users. To meet these requirements, we have devised a storyboard-based application authoring method. The main elements of this approach include a storyboard model to structure the mobile applications and a semantically-based abstraction method to represent complex applications in terms of abstracted scenes in a storyboard. This approach improves the existing visual programming paradigms which mostly focus on visually composing fine-grained programming elements. We have developed a prototype implementation of the application authoring tool and tested it with a group of users to prove the effectiveness of allowing end-users to create and manage mobile applications.

Pages: 40 to 45

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2011

Publication date: October 23, 2011

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-3468

ISBN: 978-1-61208-164-9

Location: Barcelona, Spain

Dates: from October 23, 2011 to October 29, 2011