Model driven RichUbi: a model driven process for building rich interfaces of context-sensitive ubiquitous applications

  • Authors:
  • Carlos E. Cirilo;Antonio F. do Prado;Wanderley L. de Souza;Luciana A. M. Zaina

  • Affiliations:
  • Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) - SP, Brazil;Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) - SP, Brazil;Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar) - SP, Brazil;Federal University of São Carlos (UFSCar), Sorocaba, SP, Brazil

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 28th ACM International Conference on Design of Communication
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

The demand for software in Ubiquitous Computing, in which access to applications occurs anywhere, anytime and from different devices, has raised new challenges for Software Engineering. One of these challenges is related to the adaptation of the contents of an application to the numerous devices that can access it in distinct contexts. Another challenge is related to the building of rich interfaces with multimedia content, asynchronous communication and other features that characterize Rich Internet Applications (RIAs). Searching for solutions focused on these challenges, a model-driven process for building rich interfaces of context-sensitive ubiquitous applications has been developed. The process, which is based on the conceptions of Domain-Specific Modeling (DSM), emphasizes the modeling reuse from a rich interface components metamodel. This metamodel provides a generic infrastructure for developing rich interfaces of applications, focusing on model-level reuse and on code generation for different Ubiquitous Computing platforms. In addition, the metamodel allows that the interface models are built by using the terms of rich interface domain, which facilitates the communication between users and developers.