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Bastian Pfleging, Elba Carmen Valderrama; del Bahamondez, Martin Hermes, Johannes Nolte, Albrecht Schmidt
MobiDev: A Mobile Development Kit for Combined Paper-based and In-situ Programming on the Mobile Phone
In CHI '10 Extended Abstracts on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI EA '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 3733-3738. DOI=http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/1753846.1754047 (bib)

In this paper we present MobiDev, a development kit that allows the creation of applications for mobile de- vices by developing directly on a mobile phone and by using paper-based sketches as a starting point for creating the user interface (UI). Although programming mobile applications on a computer has a well defined developmentstructure,developingamobileapplication on the mobile phone instead offers some advantages: (1) it allows people without access to a computer but to a mobile phone to create mobile applications and (2) it supports the development of applications which employ enhanced mobile phone features that are not fully sup- ported by current desktop development environments. Users draw UI sketches on paper (similar to a paper prototype) as the initial step in an evolutionary UI de- velopment process to speed up the development of the application and to minimize the text input effort.