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Authors:
Martin Zimmermann
Keywords: Location-Based Services; Object-Based Services; Mobile Applications; Visual Programming.
Abstract:
The main privilege of mobile context-aware applications is to provide effective, tailored services and reactions by considering the environmental context, such as location, time, nearby objects and other data, and adapting their functionality according to the changing situations in context information without explicit user interaction. The idea behind Location-Based Services (LBS) and Object-Based Services (OBS) is to offer fully-customizable services for user needs according to the location or the objects in a mobile user's vicinity. However, developing mobile context-aware software applications is considered as one of the most challenging application domains due to the built-in sensors as part of a mobile device. Visual programming languages (VPL) and hybrid visual programming languages are considered to be innovative approaches to address the inherent complexity of developing programs. The key contribution of our new development approach for location and object-based mobile applications is a use case driven development approach based on use case templates and visual code templates to enable even programming beginners the creation of context-aware mobile applications. An example of the use of the development approach is presented and open research challenges and perspectives for further development of our approach are formulated.
Pages: 34 to 39
Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2023
Publication date: September 25, 2023
Published in: conference
ISSN: 2308-4278
ISBN: 978-1-68558-106-0
Location: Porto, Portugal
Dates: from September 25, 2023 to September 29, 2023