Virtual Worlds on Demand? Model-Driven Development of JavaScript-based Virtual World UI Components for Mobile Apps

Matthias Stürner, Philipp Brune

2016

Abstract

Virtual worlds and avatar-based interactive computer games are a hype among consumers and researchers for many years now. In recent years, such games on mobile devices also became increasingly important. However, most virtual worlds require the use of proprietary clients and authoring environments and lack portability, which limits their usefulness for targeting wider audiences like e.g. in consumer marketing or sales. Using mobile devices and client-side web technologies like i.e. JavaScript in combination with a more automatic generation of customer-specific virtual worlds could help to overcome these limitations. Here, model-driven software development (MDD) provides a promising approach for automating the creation of user interface (UI) components for games on mobile devices. Therefore, in this paper an approach is proposed for the model-driven generation of UI components for virtual worlds using JavaScript and the upcoming Famo.us framework. The feasibilty of the approach is evaluated by implementing a proof-of-concept scenario.

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Stürner M. and Brune P. (2016). Virtual Worlds on Demand? Model-Driven Development of JavaScript-based Virtual World UI Components for Mobile Apps . In Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD, ISBN 978-989-758-168-7, pages 648-655. DOI: 10.5220/0005726906480655


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@conference{modelsward16,
author={Matthias Stürner and Philipp Brune},
title={Virtual Worlds on Demand? Model-Driven Development of JavaScript-based Virtual World UI Components for Mobile Apps},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,},
year={2016},
pages={648-655},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0005726906480655},
isbn={978-989-758-168-7},
}


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TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Model-Driven Engineering and Software Development - Volume 1: MODELSWARD,
TI - Virtual Worlds on Demand? Model-Driven Development of JavaScript-based Virtual World UI Components for Mobile Apps
SN - 978-989-758-168-7
AU - Stürner M.
AU - Brune P.
PY - 2016
SP - 648
EP - 655
DO - 10.5220/0005726906480655