An event-driven workflow framework to develop context- Aware mobile applications

Proceedings of the 11th International Conference on Mobile and Ubiquitous Multimedia, MUM 2012

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages

  Realinho, Valentim ^a,b   Romão, Teresa ^b   Dias, A Eduardo ^b  

^a POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE OF PORTALEGRE   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSIDADE NOVA DE LISBOA   (Portugal)

Author keywords

Context awareness; Interaction design; Mobility; Rapid application development; Ubiquitous computing; Usability evaluation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATICALLY GENERATED; CONTEXT AWARE APPLICATIONS; CONTEXT-AWARE MOBILE APPLICATION; CONTEXT-AWARENESS; DYNAMIC NATURE; INTERACTION DESIGN; INTERACTION DEVICES; MOBILE APPLICATIONS; RAPID APPLICATION DEVELOPMENT; RUNTIMES; SENSOR INFRASTRUCTURE; USABILITY EVALUATION; USABILITY TESTS; VIRTUAL OPERATORS; WORK-FLOWS; WORKFLOW MODELS;

CARRIER MOBILITY; ENTERPRISE RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SENSORS; SIGNAL ENCODING; SMARTPHONES; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

MOBILE TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

EID: 84871582722     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1145/2406367.2406395     Document Type: Conference Paper

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