Model-driven Development of User Interfaces for IoT Systems via Domain-specific Components and Patterns

Marco Brambilla, Eric Umuhoza

2017

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.

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Brambilla M. and Umuhoza E. (2017). Model-driven Development of User Interfaces for IoT Systems via Domain-specific Components and Patterns . In Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS, ISBN 978-989-758-248-6, pages 246-253. DOI: 10.5220/0006278302460253


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@conference{iceis17,
author={Marco Brambilla and Eric Umuhoza},
title={Model-driven Development of User Interfaces for IoT Systems via Domain-specific Components and Patterns},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,},
year={2017},
pages={246-253},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0006278302460253},
isbn={978-989-758-248-6},
}


in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the 19th International Conference on Enterprise Information Systems - Volume 2: ICEIS,
TI - Model-driven Development of User Interfaces for IoT Systems via Domain-specific Components and Patterns
SN - 978-989-758-248-6
AU - Brambilla M.
AU - Umuhoza E.
PY - 2017
SP - 246
EP - 253
DO - 10.5220/0006278302460253