The purpose of this paper is to introduce the motivations behind end user development,
discuss its basic concepts and roots, and review the current state of art. Various approaches …

Context-aware application development frameworks enable context management and
environment adaptation to automatize people's activities. New technologies such as 5G and …

The pervasiveness of ICT technologies has led to a growing need to empower people to
obtain applications that meet their specific requirements. End-User Development (EUD) is a …

Objective Create a visual mobile end user development framework, named Puzzle, which
allows end users without IT background to create, modify and execute applications, and …

Despite the widespread usage of mobile devices there is a lack of environments able to
allow end users to create applications directly in such devices. In this paper, we present the …

Malware for smartphones has rocketed over the last years. Market operators face the
challenge of kee** their stores free from malicious apps, a task that has become …

Mobile devices are everywhere, and the scope of their use is growing from simple calling
and texting through Internet browsing to more technical activities such as creating message …

This paper addresses the role of gender in End-User Development (EUD) environments and
examines whether there are gender differences in performance and in correlations between …

We present an approach to enable end-users to graphically compose their own applications
directly on their mobile phone, mainly integrating the functionalities available on the device …

The number and type of mobile platforms is increasing. Each platform has a specific set of
native functionalities (ie, camera, compass) and provides a specific framework to implement …