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An interaction model and a framework dedicated to web-based geographic applications

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Web-based geographic applications are continuously evolving and are becoming increasingly widespread. However, designing these applications is still a cumbersome task because it requires multiple and high-level technical skills related not only to recent Web technologies but also to technologies dedicated to geographic information systems (GIS). Due to this complexity, recent works highlight the difficulties to integrate sophisticated interactions in such applications. Our objective seeks to take the designers out of this complexity to allow them to focus their design activity on the interactive dimension of the application to elaborate. We propose adapted design models and a framework allowing designers to create applications according to an interaction point of view. All these contributions have been integrated in a Web 2.0 prototype allowing designers to visually specify/implement Web-based geographic applications.

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  • (2016)User-Centered Design of Geographic Interactive ApplicationsLNCS Transactions on Large-Scale Data- and Knowledge-Centered Systems XXXI - Volume 1014010.1007/978-3-662-54173-9_1(1-29)Online publication date: 1-Oct-2016

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MEDES '11: Proceedings of the International Conference on Management of Emergent Digital EcoSystems
November 2011
316 pages
ISBN:9781450310475
DOI:10.1145/2077489
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  1. code generation
  2. geographic application design
  3. interaction model
  4. visual authoring tools

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