Rapid development of mobile context-aware applications with IVO

  • Authors:
  • Valentim Realinho;Teresa Romão;Fernando Birra;A. Eduardo Dias

  • Affiliations:
  • Escola Superior de Tecnologia e Gestão de Portalegre, Lugar da Abadessa, Apartado, Portaiegre, Portugal, and CITI, Dl-Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia/UNL, Quinta da Torre, Caparica, P ...;CITI, Dl-Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia/UNL, Quinta da Torre, Caparica, Portugal;CITI, Dl-Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia/UNL, Quinta da Torre, Caparica, Portugal;CITI, Dl-Faculdade de Ciências e Tecnologia/UNL, Quinta da Torre, Caparica, Portugal

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 8th International Conference on Advances in Computer Entertainment Technology
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

IVO (Integrated Virtual Operator) is a platform to build and deploy context-aware applications using mobile devices, like smartphones and tablets, as the ubiquitous interaction device. It is designed to enable non-programmers to create and run new mobile applications. Applications are built from workflows of activities available in the platform. These workflows are triggered automatically by the device, when their temporal and spatial conditions are satisfied and with no user intervention. The applications are developed by end-users in a distributed web platform.