Continuing with the idea that ubiquitous computing is messy, Antti Oulasvirta writes about his research in Interactions, which includes the following recommendations:
- Minimizing overheads that create temporal seams between activities;
- Making remote but important resources, such as connectivity or cables, better transparent locally and digitally;
- Propagating metadata on migration of data from device to device;
- Supporting ad hoc uses of proximate devices’ resources like projectors, keyboards, and displays;
- Triggering digital events like synchronization of predetermined documents with physical gestures; and
- Supporting appropriation of material properties for support surfaces
Link: When users ‘do’ the ubicomp (acm.org, also interactions.acm.org)
Related:
- One-handed touch screen interaction
- Mobile usage behaviours data collection project
- Design for the urban environment
- Current work in UbiComp
- Mobile Devices as Pervasive User Interfaces and Interaction Devices (PERMID 2005)
Tags: connectivity, design, guidelines, messy, metadata, research, resources, synchronization, ubicomp, userresearch
