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Mobile applications are finding increased acceptance in tourism, particularly tourist services like city, sport or museum guides. The potential of mobile services is difficult to estimate a priori because hardly any user acceptance tests can be carried out before having a concrete implementation of that service. In this work we present a methodology and a through evaluation that allows a rapid development of high-fidelity prototypes of mobile applications. Goal of the empiric part of the investigations was the development of a mobile prototype with the ˵NetBeans Mobility Pack″ software in the shortest possible time and to subsequently test it as to suitability for practical use in the real context. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In complex emergency/disaster scenarios, teams from various emergency-response organizations collaborate in order to achieve a common goal. The use of smart mobile devices and applications in these scenarios can improve this collaboration dynamically; and poses interesting challenges, such as user΄ mental attention, small screen size, unavailability of reliable network, reduced power, and battery consumption. So, to design and develop interactive applications to be used in mobile and pervasive scenarios requires novel methodologies which combine user-centred design approaches and software engineering approaches tailed for distributed architectures. In this paper, we outline the methodology, adopted successfully in the European WORKPAD project, and describe the work done from getting the requirements to developing the interface of the desired system. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]