Posts Tagged: adaptive

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May 08

Organic User Interfaces

The latest edition, June 2008, of ACM’s Communications has a bumper selection of articles about Organic User Interfaces (OUIs). Organic User Interfaces have “non-planar displays that may actively or passively change shape via analog physical inputs”. The lead article describes these major attributes of OUIs:

  1. Input equals output: where the display is the input device
  2. Function equals form: where the display can take on any shape
  1. Form follows function: where displays can change their shape

    The today-existing analogues for these are touchscreens, custom form displays and folding displays. The articles each explore the future of these in much more depth and complexity; this stuff is incredibly important for the next generation of mobile computing devices.

    There aren’t any traces of the magazine online yet (?!?), but it’s worth tracking down (it should appear here when it does).

    UPDATE: The articles are posted at organicui.org

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Jan 08

Adaptive form factor concept

Nokia concept video demonstrating adaptive form factors. Also a nice example of lo-fi video concepting.

(for those on the RSS, click the link for the video)

Link: YouTube – Nokia 888 Design (youtube.com)

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Dec 05

Adaptive task based mobile UI concept

“Let�s say user typed 25. It can be the beginning of the phone number. It may be 25 minutes timer. Or perhaps it�s 25 dollars he wishes to convert in some european currency. Or some code he doesn�t want to forget.”

Link: Adaptive Task-based Interface (mobiface.com)

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May 05

Buckets of heterogeneous data

So your mobile device is loaded with reams of data. How to get the stuff back out of it? Search it, of course. It seems to me, though, that the most of the useful data on mobile devices isn’t in text form.

“One strategy for dealing with this problem is to bring search capabilities to handsets. Qix, from Zi Corporation, is an excellent example of such an approach: start typing on your handset and it immediately looks through all your data for matches with what you’ve entered. So, if you’ve started typing a name which is in your phone book, this name is displayed alongside the number you’re tapping in. Links and media are similarly indexed, leading to a remarkably thought-free experience—the phone seems to know what you’re after and bring it to you.”

(The title of the article shouldn’t be “Advanced Handsets Need Advanced UIs”, but rather “Advanced Handsets Need Smart Technology and Simple UIs”).

Link: Advanced Handsets Need Advanced UIs