TY - JOUR AU - Alarcón, Rosa AU - Guerrero, Luis A. AU - Ochoa, Sergio F. AU - Pino, José A. PY - 2012/01/31 Y2 - 2024/03/29 TI - Analysis and Design of Mobile Collaborative Applications Using Contextual Elements JF - COMPUTING AND INFORMATICS JA - Comput. Inform. VL - 25 IS - 6 SE - Articles DO - UR - https://www.cai.sk/ojs/index.php/cai/article/view/354 SP - 469-496 AB - Collaborative mobile applications support users on the move in order to perform a collaborative task. One of the challenges when designing such applications is to consider the context where they will execute. Contextualized applications are easy to adopt by the users; unfortunately the design of contextualized tools is not evident. This paper presents a framework of contextual elements to be considered during the conception, analysis and design phases of a mobile collaborative application. This framework supports developers to identify non-functional requirements and part of the architectural design in order to get contextualized applications. The use of this framework is complementary to any structured software process. A framework use example is also presented as an illustration of its applicability. ER -