Iconic languages: Towards end-user programming of mobile applications

After tracing the steps that led to the current generation of iconic languages starting from the original idea of S.K. Chang, we describe an iconic language, named MicroApp, for modeling pervasive mobile applications directly on the mobile device. MicroApp exploits generalized icons for composing mo...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of visual languages and computing Jg. 38; S. 1 - 8
Hauptverfasser: Francese, Rita, Risi, Michele, Tortora, Genoveffa
Format: Journal Article
Sprache:Englisch
Veröffentlicht: Elsevier Ltd 01.02.2017
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Iconic languages
Mobile development
Visual languages
Visual programming
Visual languages
Visual programming
Mobile development
Iconic languages
ISSN:1045-926X, 1095-8533
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Zusammenfassung:After tracing the steps that led to the current generation of iconic languages starting from the original idea of S.K. Chang, we describe an iconic language, named MicroApp, for modeling pervasive mobile applications directly on the mobile device. MicroApp exploits generalized icons for composing mobile applications: services are represented by icons and are composed of adopting colors for representing data-flow. We also qualitatively evaluate the visual environment that implements this iconic language.
ISSN:1045-926X
1095-8533
DOI:10.1016/j.jvlc.2016.10.009