The development of mobile applications has now extended from mobile network providers into the hands of ordinary people as organizations and companies encourage people to come up with their own software masterpieces by opening up APIs and tools. However, as of the moment, these APIs and tools are only usable by people with programming skills. There is a scarcity of tools that enable users without programming experience to easily build customized mobile applications. We present in this paper a tool and its underlying framework that would enable non-technical people to create their own domain-specific mobile applications. As a proof of concept, we focus on the creation of applications in the domain of mobile health monitoring. In the future, we would like to extend our work to cover other domains as well.

Usability analysis is an important step in software development in order to improve certain aspects of the system. However, it is often a challenge especially when it comes to evaluating applications running on mobile devices because of the restrictions posed by the device and the lack of supporting tools and software available to collect the necessary usability data. This paper proposes a methodology and framework to aid developers in preparing the mobile system for usability analysis. The focus is on the simplification of the developer's task in preparing the system for evaluation and the processing of the collected usability data by automating some of the tasks involved in the process.

This research aims to simplify the creation of applications for mobile platforms by developing a high-level and platform independent model of an application, and automatically transforming this high-level model to platform specific code. The research method is a combination of the model-driven development (MDD) approach in software development and application of techniques in the field of human-computer interaction (HCI) particularly on user- centered system design. This research involves developing a graphical modeling language which is specific to mobile applications and coming up with a generic algorithm for the conversion of this graphical model into code. The main focus of the research however, is on the design of the graphical model, and the interaction techniques which will allow non-expert people to create specialized mobile applications with case.