Developing Applications for Wearable Computers: A Process driven Example

Interaction and usability aspects of software systems are critical software quality measures. This paper reports on the development process applied to implement an application to support aircraft maintenance tasks with wearable computers. We describe the different phases of the development as well as tools used by application developers to implement the actual application. Moreover, we provide information on the way user studies and their results were used to support the development process with respect to the chosen user interface.

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