Research on Methods for Developing Practical Distributed Applications Using Physical Interfaces

本研究的目的是让学习者有兴趣开发自己的应用程序。这些应用程序依赖于最近重要的Web服务技术，如分布式对象，数据库和对象之间的公共空间。此外，它们依赖于使用近场通信和各种传感器和致动器的物理计算技术。这些技术的合作被认为对扩大他们的兴趣和技能非常重要。我们分三个阶段推进研究。在第一，许多实际的和有吸引力的编程练习的主题进行了调查。其次，我们使用智能手机和分布式编程环境给出了他们的答案和实现示例。第三，根据学习者的环境和需求，明确了合适的协作方式和相关信息，为他们将来开发具有多种接口的分布式应用程序提供了依据。

The purpose of this study is to let learners have interested in development of their own applications. These applications depend on recent important web services technology such as distributed objects, databases, and common spaces among objects. Further, they depend on physical computing technologies using near filed communication and various kinds of sensors and actuators. Cooperation of these technologies was considered very important to expand their interests and skills. We pushed forward our study with three phases. In the first, many practical and attractive themes for programming exercises were investigated. Second, we presented their answers and implementation samples using smartphones and also using distributed programming environment. Third, we clarified appropriate cooperation means and related information according to the environment and the demand of the learners, for their future development of distributed applications with a variety of interfaces.