Evaluating Usability of Cross-Platform Smartphone Applications

Mesfin, Gebremariam; Ghinea, Gheorghiţă; Midekso, Dida; Grønli, Tor‐Morten

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-10359-4_20

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“…[15,16,17,18,19]), and studies focused on end-users' perception of the quality of mobile apps (e.g. [20,21,22,23,24,25,26]). Research on software development for mobile computing conducted in the intersection of business and software engineering often relies on requirements or criteria originating from the industry (e.g.…”

Section: Mobile Computingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Software Development for Mobile Computing, the Internet of Things and Wearable Devices: Inspecting the Past to Understand the Future

Grønli

Biørn-Hansen

Majchrzak

2019

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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Currently a convergence in software development for mobile computing (including mobile devices and special technology such as wearables) and the Internet of Things (IoT) can be observed. Devices from the fields are becoming part of a joint ecosystem and share the same infrastructure. Moreover, development processes have changed and user requirements have become very heterogeneous. We have been studying this development for a while, also by offering the fitting HICSS minitrack. In this article, we look into the past of software development for mobile devices, in the context of IoT, and for wearables. We analyse joint characteristics and show differences. Then we invite to a discussion that leads to a research outlook. While neither for industry nor for academia the journey is over, the convergence of fields should offer many new possibilities, prevent problems we faced in the past, but also introduce novel challenges.

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Section: Mobile Computingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Software Development for Mobile Computing, the Internet of Things and Wearable Devices: Inspecting the Past to Understand the Future

Grønli

Biørn-Hansen

Majchrzak

2019

Proceedings of the Annual Hawaii International Conference on System Sciences

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“…Native applications are based on the programming language required by the platform they are built for: Objective-C or Swift for iOS and Java or Kotlin for Android. Their cross-platform counterparts further involve bridging systems like React Native, Flutter, Apache Cordova and its distribution Adobe PhoneGap, Ionic, NativeScript and Xamarin that absolve development from platform-specific code (Mesfin et al, 2014). Among the aforementioned, emphasis is given to open-source and JavaScript-based solutions that relies on API bindings to access device's IMU, data and network status.…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

Hybrid Mobile Augmented Reality: Web-Like Concepts Applied to High Resolution 3d Overlays

Boutsi

Ioannidis

Soile

2019

Int. Arch. Photogramm. Remote Sens. Spatial Inf. Sci.

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Abstract. Mobile Augmented Reality (MAR) aligns toward current technological advances with more intuitive interfaces, realistic graphic content and flexible development processes. The case of overlaying precise 3D representations exploits their high penetration to induct users to a world where data are perceived as real counterparts. The work presented in this paper integrates web-like concepts with hybrid mobile tools to visualize high-quality and complex 3D geometry on the real environment. The implementation involves two different operational mechanisms: anchors and location-sensitive tracking. Three scenarios, for indoors and outdoors are developed using open-source and with no limit on distribution SDKs, APIs and rendering engines. The JavaScript-driven prototype consolidates some of the overarching principles of AR, such as pose estimation, registration and 3D tracking to an interactive User Interface under the scene graph concept. The 3D overlays are shown to the end user i) on top of an image target ii) on real-world planar surfaces and iii) at predefined points of interest (POI). The evaluation in terms of performance, rendering efficacy and responsiveness is made through various testing strategies: system and trace logs, profiling and ‗end-to-end‖ tests. The final benchmarking elucidates the slow and computationally intensive procedures induced by the big data rendering and optimization patterns are proposed to mitigate the performance impact to the non-native technologies.

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“…Several research aimed to examine software quality in smartphone platforms in term of quality testing models such as [6], or non-functional quality attributes such as smartphone usability [7][8], smartphone reusability [9], or smartphone reliability [10].…”

Section: Related Workmentioning

confidence: 99%

In Need of a Domain-Specific Language Modeling Notation for Smartphone Applications with Portable Capability

Ghandorh

Capretz

Nassif

2015

Mobile Web and Intelligent Information Systems

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Abstract. A rapid growing of smartphone market and its increasing revenue have developers to target multiple platforms. Each leading software company, e.g. Apple or Microsoft, develops its smartphone applications or apps complying with its own specifications. The specification of each platform makes a platform-dedicated application incompatible with other platforms due to the diversity of operating system, programming language, and design patterns. As a consequence, development of dedicated applications for multiple platforms is tedious task. Conventional development methodologies are applied to smartphone apps, but less performance and requirements appear which reduce their quality. Such phenomena occurred due to two perspectives: unique hardware and software requirements. Several previous works considered automatically generating executable code based on abstract models that would alleviate platforms fragmentation. It is possible that defining smartphone applications considering portability requirements using a customize notation would contribute to smartphone app quality. This paper proposes a domain-specific language notation to design portable smartphone applications using appropriate abstractions.

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Evaluating Usability of Cross-Platform Smartphone Applications

Cited by 7 publications

References 14 publications

Software Development for Mobile Computing, the Internet of Things and Wearable Devices: Inspecting the Past to Understand the Future

Software Development for Mobile Computing, the Internet of Things and Wearable Devices: Inspecting the Past to Understand the Future

Hybrid Mobile Augmented Reality: Web-Like Concepts Applied to High Resolution 3d Overlays

In Need of a Domain-Specific Language Modeling Notation for Smartphone Applications with Portable Capability

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