ENRICHING THE DESIGN AND PROTOTYPING LOOP: A SET OF TOOLS TO SUPPORT THE CREATION OF ACTIVITY-BASED PERVASIVE APPLICATIONS
Keywords:
Mobile computing, Pervasive Computing, Activity-based computing, User Centered DesignAbstract
This paper proposes a complete approach to support the modelling, testing and proto- typing of pervasive applications. It describes a set of tools aimed at supporting designers in the conceptualisation of their application and in the software development stage, and proposes a method for checking the validity of their design. For each step of the develop- ment life-cycle (design, prototyping and evaluation), we position the proposed approach with respect to related tools and methods. We also present a pervasive application imple- mented and evaluated using the proposed approach and tools, which facilitates further discussion of the benefits and disadvantages of using the proposed framework. We con- clude with propositions for improvements to our comprehensive modelling, prototyping and testing framework for pervasive applications.
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