Integration of Usability Into the Development of Mobile Computing Environments Applied to Contextual Location Based Services (LBS)

Our research focuses on the incorporation of usability into location based services. We devised a development process that incorporates techniques borrowed from the human-computer interaction discipline. These techniques are rigorously selected and integrated and cover all the location based systems development phases. This development process combines three major processes in a single framework: usability, the software process and mobile applications construction. The aim is to assure greater levels of user satisfaction with location based services.