Visual programming paradigm for e-Textiles

Abstract

The development of applications for e-Textiles opens the possibility of improving the life quality of the user. E.g. we would like to surf big waves in Haiti but our health is weak, an application can give us a feedback of vital signs, such as heart rate or blood pressure, it can even suggest recommendations about the monitored values. This type of development could change the way that we understand the usability of e-Textiles and how the e-Textiles could be useful in real life. We propose the creation of an innovative way in the visual programming where the user can interconnect hardware and software components using the virtual space in common located in our application TangoHapps.The main idea is that elements of each component, such as methods, events and properties should be shown graphically making it possible to use this piece of information to create interconnections. There are two problems which need to be addressed. We need to speed up the development process and also simplify the method of creating a prototype in the application.