Empowering End-Users to Develop Context-Aware Mobile Applications Using a Web Platform

Context-aware mobile applications can adapt their information and functionalities according to the users´ needs. The required personalization layer is usually implemented by programmers due to the complex processes that are involved. An important trend in software development is that more and more applications are being written not only by programmers but also by people with expertise in other domains. Since most of the existing context-aware development toolkits are designed for programmers, non-technical users cannot implement these kinds of applications. This article presents a web-based platform to ease the development of context-aware mobile applications by non-technical end-users. The architecture and implementation details of the system are presented and the evaluation of the platform by non-programmers is discussed.