Advances in the Development of Highly Interactive Systems

During the last years, many highly interactive devices have transformed our lives by setting sophisticated devices almost everywhere. Different kind of tablets, laptops, whiteboards, touchable surfaces, sensors, situated displays, mobile devices and other exciting computer systems are present in all our daily activities both professional and spare time ones. Developing this kind of system is a complex process, since it involves different devices, a variety of technologies or tools and different hardware, in a changing and evolving world. Additionally, most of the highly interactive systems have collaborative requirements or usability and accessibility needs. This Special Issue brings together a selection of articles related to the development of highly interactive systems. These include a selection of the extended versions of the best papers presented at the international conferences Interacción 2012 and MexIHC 2012. The first article by José L. González Sánchez et al. entitled " Using SWET-QUM to Compare the Quality in Use of Semantic Web Exploration Tools " proposes a method based on the international standard ISO/IEC 25010:2011 that allows evaluation and facilitates comparability of the quality of the user experience when interacting with Semantic Web tools. The article by Begoña Losada et al. entitled " Applying Usability Engineering in InterMod Agile Development Methodology. A Case Study in a Mobile Application " explains when and how to integrate aspects of usability engineering in the agile development process proposed by the InterMod methodology. The next paper, authored by Natalia Padilla-Zea et al. entitled " A Method to Evaluate Emotions in Educational Video Games for Children " is focused on the design and evaluation of a method to assess emotions when young children (3-5 years old) play a educational video game.