Modelling is central to many disciplines in engineering and the natural and social sciences. A wide variety of modelling languages and tools have been proposed along the years, traditionally for static environments such as desktops and laptops. However, the availability of increasingly powerful mobile devices makes it possible to profit from their embedded sensors and components (e.g. camera, microphone, GPS, accelerometer, gyroscope) for modelling. This has promoted a new range of modelling tools specially designed for their use in mobility. Such tools open the door to modelling in dynamic scenarios that go beyond the capabilities of traditional desktop tools. For example, modelling in mobility can be useful to design smart factories on-site, or to create models of hiking routes while walking along the routes, among many other scenarios. In this paper, we report on a systematic mapping study to identify the state of the art and trends in modelling on mobile devices. The study covers both research papers and modelling apps from the Android and iOS stores. From this analysis, we derive a classification for mobile modelling tools along three orthogonal dimensions, discuss current gaps, and propose avenues for further research.

建模是工程、自然科学和社会科学中许多学科的核心。多年来，已经提出了各种各样的建模语言和工具，传统上用于台式机和笔记本电脑等静态环境。然而，越来越强大的移动设备的可用性使其有可能从其嵌入式传感器和组件（例如摄像头、麦克风、GPS、加速度计、陀螺仪）进行建模中获利。这促进了一系列新的建模工具，专门为它们在移动中的使用而设计。此类工具为在超出传统桌面工具功能的动态场景中建模打开了大门。例如，移动建模可用于现场设计智能工厂，或在沿着路线行走时创建远足路线模型以及许多其他场景。在本文中，我们报告了一项系统映射研究，以确定移动设备建模的最新技术和趋势。该研究涵盖了来自 Android 和 iOS 商店的研究论文和建模应用程序。从这个分析中，我们沿着三个正交维度对移动建模工具进行了分类，讨论了当前的差距，并提出了进一步研究的途径。