A prototype for EUD in touch-based mobile devices

Author

Danado, José ; Paternò, Fabio

Author_Institution

ISTI, Human Interfaces in Inf. Syst., C.N.R., Pisa, Italy

fYear

2012

fDate

Sept. 30 2012-Oct. 4 2012

Firstpage

83

Lastpage

86

Abstract

Widespread usage of powerful touch-based mobile devices enables the creation of tools that will allow end users to create their own mobile applications. In this paper, we introduce the Puzzle framework, which supports a visual authoring tool for opportunistically creating mobile applications in touch-based mobile phones. Puzzle focuses on users without programming experience and enables them to playfully experiment and create mobile applications. Puzzle applications can include access to web-services, native phone functions and interactive objects. In the paper, we report on its current architecture and user interface.

Keywords

Web services; authoring systems; mobile computing; user interfaces; visual programming; EUD; Web services; interactive objects; mobile applications; native phone functions; programming experience; puzzle framework; touch based mobile devices; touch based mobile phones; user interface; visual authoring tool; Computer architecture; Facebook; Image color analysis; Mobile communication; Mobile handsets; Servers; Visualization; End user development; authoring tools; mobile computing; visual mobile editor;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Visual Languages and Human-Centric Computing (VL/HCC), 2012 IEEE Symposium on

Conference_Location

Innsbruck

ISSN

1943-6092

Print_ISBN

978-1-4673-0852-6

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/VLHCC.2012.6344487

Filename

6344487