Methodology and Tools for Pervasive Application Development. (3rd April 2014)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Tang, Lei; Yu, Zhiwen; Wang, Hanbo; Zhou, Xingshe; Duan, Zongtao
• Is Part Of: International journal of distributed sensor networks. Volume 10:Number 4(2014)
• Publication Date: 2014-04-03
• Subjects: Sensor networks -- Periodicals; Intelligent agents (Computer software) -- Periodicals; Multisensor data fusion -- Periodicals; 681.2
• DOI: 10.1155/2014/516432
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1550-1329

Abstract

Understanding the user's demands and intentions is essential when developing pervasive applications. It ensures proactive decisions and improves usability. However, due to a lack of conceptual development methodology and supporting tools, it is difficult to orient the designs towards user's needs. To make the developer's task feasible, we present a development environment, called PerDE, which supports a novel design method. Our approach combines the notion of the situation with an application model and provides a domain-specific design language and a set of graphical toolkits covering the development life cycle of a pervasive application. We validate our approach on developing a realistic situation and describe the results from a user study that illustrates the expressiveness and usability of PerDE.