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A Sensor-Driven Framework for Rapid Prototyping of Mobile Applications Using a Context-Aware Approach

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Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence (UCAmI 2016)

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The development of mobile context-aware applications using sensors require the developers to understand several diverse issues: signal acquisition, network protocols, embedded systems, data filtering, etc. We designed and implemented a software framework in order to assist developers in prototyping. Our framework facilitates the use of sensors from wearable devices and supports the reusability of components following a modular approach. This paper describes the design of our approach and highlights the benefits of the framework for the development of mobile applications. To evaluate the framework, representative context-aware applications are described as a case study. The usability of the applications were tested with 26 participants and good results were obtained.

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This work has been supported by the Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness of the Spanish Government and by the European Regional Development Fund (projects TIN2013-41123-P and TIN2014-52665-C2-1-R), and by the Department of Education, Universities and Research of the Basque Government under grant IT980-16. The last two authors belong to the Basque Advanced Informatics Laboratory (BAILab), grant UFI11/45, supported by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU). B. Gamecho is backed by the “Convocatoria de contratación de doctores recientes hasta su integración en programas de formación postdoctoral en la UPV/EHU 2015”.

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  1. Egokituz Laboratory, University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU), Donostia, Spain

    Borja Gamecho, Luis Gardeazabal & Julio Abascal

  2. Wimbi Technologies S.L. (WimbiTek), Donostia, Spain

    Borja Gamecho & Luis Gardeazabal

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Gamecho, B., Gardeazabal, L., Abascal, J. (2016). A Sensor-Driven Framework for Rapid Prototyping of Mobile Applications Using a Context-Aware Approach. In: García, C., Caballero-Gil, P., Burmester, M., Quesada-Arencibia, A. (eds) Ubiquitous Computing and Ambient Intelligence. UCAmI 2016. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 10069. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-48746-5_48

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