iCAP: an informal tool for interactive prototyping of context-aware applications

iCAP is a system that assists users in prototyping contextaware applications. iCAP supports sketching for creating input and output devices, and using these devices to design interaction rules, which can be prototyped in a simulated or real context-aware environment. We were motivated to build our system by the lack of tools currently available for developing rich sensor-based applications. We iterated on the design of our system using paper prototypes and obtained feedback from fellow researchers, to develop a robust system for prototyping context-aware applications. Keywords Informal prototyping, context-aware computing

• Type: Conference
• Year: 2003
• Where: CHI
• Authors: Timothy Sohn, Anind K. Dey
• Keywords: CHI 2003, Context-aware Applications, Human Computer Interaction, Real Context-aware Environment, Rich Sensor-based Applications