Designing usable interface for navigating mobile chat messages

  • Authors:
  • Daniel Kuen Seong Su;Victoria Siew Yen Yee

  • Affiliations:
  • The University of Nottingham, Selangor, Malaysia;Financial Services, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  • Venue:
  • OZCHI '07 Proceedings of the 19th Australasian conference on Computer-Human Interaction: Entertaining User Interfaces
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

There has been little design consideration given to ease the navigation through a long chat archive in a limited screen display. By incorporating graphical and user-centered design, messages can be presented in logical grouping for navigation ease and efficient tracking of specific messages in a long chat archive. This paper explores usable interface design for mobile group chat systems via navigation and visualisation to track messages that results in minimal key-pressed and fast message retrieval. Additionally, we incorporate avatars and emoticon in user identification and human embodiment to facilitate ease of understanding of the messages' contents