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Puzzle: A Visual-Based Environment for End User Development in Touch-Based Mobile Phones

Puzzle: A Visual-Based Environment for End User Development in Touch-Based Mobile Phones

  • Jose Danado19 &
  • Fabio Paternò19 
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Abstract

Despite the widespread usage of mobile devices there is a lack of environments able to allow end users to create applications directly in such devices. In this paper, we present the Puzzle framework, which supports a visual environment for opportunistically creating mobile applications in touch-based mobile phones. The user interface is designed to be usable for mobile users that do not use programming languages in their daily work as well as to motivate end users to playfully experiment and create applications. In particular, we report on its user interface, framework and evaluation.

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  • End user development
  • ubiquitous computing
  • mobile computing
  • authoring tools

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  1. CNR-ISTI, HIIS, Via Moruzzi 1, 56124, Pisa, Italy

    Jose Danado & Fabio Paternò

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  2. Computer Science Department, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Str. 21, D-18051, Rostock, Germany

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  3. ICS-IRIT, University Paul Sabatier, 118 route de Narbonne, 31062, Toulouse Cedex 9, France

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Danado, J., Paternò, F. (2012). Puzzle: A Visual-Based Environment for End User Development in Touch-Based Mobile Phones. In: Winckler, M., Forbrig, P., Bernhaupt, R. (eds) Human-Centered Software Engineering. HCSE 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7623. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-34347-6_12

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