Authors:
Marco Brambilla
and
Eric Umuhoza
Affiliation:
Politecnico di Milano, Italy
Keyword(s):
Internet of Things, IoT, Model-driven Development, User Interaction, Design Patterns, Mobile Applications Modeling, User Experience, Software Engineering, IFML.
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Data Communication Networking
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Internet of Things
;
Model Driven Architectures and Engineering
;
Sensor Networks
;
Software Agents and Internet Computing
;
Software and Architectures
;
Software Engineering
;
Telecommunications
;
Tools, Techniques and Methodologies for System Development
Abstract:
Internet of Things technologies and applications are evolving and continuously gaining traction in all fields and environments, including homes, cities, services, industry and commercial enterprises. However, still many problems need to be addressed. For instance, the IoT vision is mainly focused on the technological and infrastructure aspect, and on the management and analysis of the huge amount of generated data, while so far the development of front-end and user interfaces for IoT has not played a relevant role in research. On the contrary, user interfaces in the IoT ecosystem they can play a key role in the acceptance of solutions by final adopters. In this paper we present a model-driven approach to the design of IoT interfaces, by defining a specific visual design language and design patterns for IoT applications, and we show them at work. The language we propose is defined as an extension of the OMG standard language called IFML.