Topiary: Tools for Prototyping Location-Enhanced ApplicationsApplications that use the location of people, places, and things will experience tremendous growth in the near future. However, it currently requires a high level of technical expertise to build location-enhanced applications. To address this problem we created Topiary, a tool for rapidly prototyping location-enhanced applications. Topiary lets designers create a map that models the location of people, places, and things; use this active map to demonstrate scenarios depicting location contexts; use these scenarios in creating storyboards that describe interaction sequences; and then run these storyboards on mobile devices, with a wizard updating the location of people and things on a separate device. We also designed BrickRoad, a tool that allows designers to spontaneoulsy design location-enhanced applications without specifying any interaction logic. BrickRoad, as a front end of Topiary, is used to collect interaction scenario data that can be processed in Topiary for generating functional location prototypes.
Video, Papers and Software of the Topiary System
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