Testing the Usability of a Platform for Rapid Development of Mobile Context-Aware Applications

Teresa Isabel Lopes Romão; António Eduardo Cardoso Pinto Baptista Dias

doi:10.1007/978-3-642-23765-2_36

Testing the Usability of a Platform for Rapid Development of Mobile Context-Aware Applications

Teresa Isabel Lopes Romão, António Eduardo Cardoso Pinto Baptista Dias

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Abstract

In this paper, we present the usability evaluation of IVO (Integrated Virtual Operator), a platform that supports the rapid development of context- aware applications by users with no programming skills. Using only the tools provided by the platform (IVO Builder and IVO Outlook), users can define temporal and spatial conditions and associate them with workflows of activities available within the platform. This way, whenever the defined conditions occur, the user’s smartphone will immediately produce the intended behavior, with no need for user intervention. The applications developed using IVO can easily be made available to other users through a distributed web platform. Moreover, an android client was developed, to run the IVO-developed applications, allowing the smartphone to act as the ubiquitous interaction device. The evaluation of the platform was performed through usability tests at both the end-user level (android client) and the developer-user level (builder tools).

Original language	Unknown
Title of host publication	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Pages	521-536
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-23765-2_36
Publication status	Published - 1 Jan 2011
Event	IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT) - Duration: 1 Jan 2011 → …

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Conference	IFIP TC13 Conference on Human-Computer Interaction (INTERACT)
Period	1/01/11 → …

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