Identifying Guidelines for Designing and Engineering Human-Centered Context-Aware Systems

In the ”future internet” environment that is generative and fosters innovation, applications are simplifying, are becoming mobile, are getting more social and user oriented. Software design capable of coping with such a generative environment that drives and supports innovation is still an issue. Some of the challenges of such systems include: empowering end-users with the necessary tools to model and develop applications by themselves, while in the same time hiding the technical layer from them. This paper introduces a set of guidelines for designing and engineering human-centered context-aware systems from a human computer interaction and meta-design perspective.