Application development environment for event‐driven ubiquitous devices
International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications
ISSN: 1742-7371
Article publication date: 26 June 2009
Abstract
Purpose
In ubiquitous computing environments, not only programmers but also general users come to develop/customize applications. Therefore, the purpose of this paper is to propose a new application development environment for ubiquitous computing environments.
Design/methodology/approach
The paper clarifies the requirements for application development environments of ubiquitous computing environments. It then designs and implements a prototype of a development environment that fulfills these requirements.
Findings
It is found that the requirements for application development in ubiquitous computing environments are: easy programming, detection of current status, programming awareness of network connections between multiple ubiquitous devices, and debugging with cooperation among real/virtual environments.
Research limitations/implications
This prototype of application development environment is designed for event‐driven ubiquitous devices.
Practical implications
A prototype development environment has been implemented to show the effectiveness of this approach, and is presented an example of an application development to show the effectiveness of the approach.
Originality/value
This paper proposes a new style of application development for ubiquitous computing environments
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Citation
Sagara, R., Kishino, Y., Terada, T. and Nishio, S. (2009), "Application development environment for event‐driven ubiquitous devices", International Journal of Pervasive Computing and Communications, Vol. 5 No. 2, pp. 87-103. https://doi.org/10.1108/17427370910976016
Publisher
:Emerald Group Publishing Limited
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